QNAP TS-469L or Synology DS412+

[kev7274]

After much debate,I have narrowed it down to these two. I am leaning towards the Qnap because of the ability to upgrade the memory to 3gb if needed. I want to get some opinions before I buy though.

Will be used to store my music,videos,bluray,pc backup and use it to monitor a few security cameras.I will also have my WDTV Live Plus (gen3) hooked up to it.

I don't see any reason as to why either would work,but I may be wrong.Let me know what you think.Thanks

 

[thiggins]

Either will work. Memory upgrade helps only for write caching for smaller files. It won't help speed up large file transfers.

 

[stevech]

After much debate,I have narrowed it down to these two. I am leaning towards the Qnap because of the ability to upgrade the memory to 3gb if needed. I want to get some opinions before I buy though.

Will be used to store my music,videos,bluray,pc backup and use it to monitor a few security cameras.I will also have my WDTV Live Plus (gen3) hooked up to it.

I don't see any reason as to why either would work,but I may be wrong.Let me know what you think.Thanks

Have you used each vendor's on-line NAS demo - to assess ease of use? They may be quite similar.

Consider too, availability of eSATA or USB3 for your backup drive. NASes are all about I/O speeds and a few applications running that aren't memory intensive like MS Windows is with .NET's bytecode interpreter, etc.

I don't think memory size upgrade will be noticeable. Not like MS Windows and .NET with its inefficiencies.

 

[kev7274]

Thanks for the replies. I have tried out the demo for both.They
both have a nice gui,with the qnap reminding me more or a business/corporate
feel. I do like the look of the qnap a little better though.Basicslly
comes down to preference i guess.