Real Thecus Issues?

[darottens]

New to the whole NAS thing. Been doing my research to try and make the right choice. The charts and reviews here are very helpful.

I'm looking for standard features in a NAS, storage, media server, redundancy.

I've roughly settled on a multi disk configuration, probably running RAID 1. Would like to have at least 1TB of usable space.

After searching I thought I had settled on the Thecus N3200 Pro or the N0503. My concern are the occasional posts I see referencing support issues with Thecus. I know that everybody has their favorites and biases.

Are there real issues with Thecus that would mean that I should not consider the?

My other choices along the way have been the ReadyNAS Duo (thought I would opt for a newer technology), the HP 1TB MediaSmart Server (the lack of RAID threw me off and I have fears of wading through thousands of duplicate files created by the auto gathering feature).

I'm hoping to top out at not much more than 500 for the fully loaded machine.

Thanks for the input.

 

[jp2325]

Thecus sucks!

Well, my only experience with Thecus was buying and returning the N5200BR Pro. I was not in the least bit impressed.

Their software/firmware/documentation looks like it was written by a below average monkey with a learning disability. The only options they have for their media server is "On/Off". Talk about oversimplification. It looked nice, for sure.

I returned in the day after I received it, and I doubt I'll ever buy Thecus again. I did try to call their "US Headquarters" ... the phone rang a few times, then a normal answering machine answered and some guy who speaks English as a 12th language left the standard "We aren't here, leave a message" message ... what kind of multi-national company would do that?

I'm waiting for reviews on the Qnap TS-x59 series now, and I think I'm going to end up with the TS-659.

As far as Thecus goes ... JUST SAY NO!

 

[darottens]

Thanks for the input. That's the sense I'm getting.

It's too bad, because they're units are quite compelling feature wise.

So down to QNAP, Synology, Netgear.

 

[darottens]

Getting blurry eyed from reading all the different specs.

If I'm down to the DS209+ II or the TS210 which one will be the more useful machine over the long haul and which one is the better perfomer?

 

[thiggins]

Check QNAP and Synology forums for success / failure stories on media streaming to whatever device you're considering, especially if PS3 / Xbox 360 or anything else that depends on UPnP AV / DLNA.

 

[jp2325]

I don't owe either of those, but looking at the specs... I'd go with the TS-210, as long as the 210 wasn't insanely more expensive...

Most of the hardware info is the same, so the differences seem to be minor, but the 210 does have a slight leg up.