Reliable consumer NAS brands?

[scottlindner]

Are there any brands known for impeccable reliability or to be highly unreliable? I'm thinking mostly about unrecoverable volume failures, and failing to rebuild a volume properly after a drive failure.

I was about to buy another Synology but I noticed some complaints about losing the entire volume during a rebuild due to a failed drive. I haven't had a drive fail yet so I have no experience with rebuilding. I appreciate any feedback regarding your reliability experiences either positive or negative.

Much appreciated. Cheers.

 

[thiggins]

If a second drive fails during a RAID 5 rebuild, ain't nothing going to save you since RAID 5 tolerates only one drive fail at a time. That's why you need to back up any NAS for stuff you really can't afford to lose.

I run single-drive NASes only (Synology and WD) and neither of their drives have died yet. One is solely used to back up the other.

 

[stevech]

Are there any brands known for impeccable reliability or to be highly unreliable? I'm thinking mostly about unrecoverable volume failures, and failing to rebuild a volume properly after a drive failure.

I was about to buy another Synology but I noticed some complaints about losing the entire volume during a rebuild due to a failed drive. I haven't had a drive fail yet so I have no experience with rebuilding. I appreciate any feedback regarding your reliability experiences either positive or negative.

Much appreciated. Cheers.

In a 2 bay, I use two volumes, two drives. Selected folder copy daily, so that a corrupt file system won't be devastating. Also a USB3 backup.
I feel that drive failure is much less likely that other things such as theft, NAS power supply/mainboard failure, human error (file mangled,deleted). My DS212 has been faultless for a couple of years now. But it's on a small home LAN with just a few GB of transfers a day, mostly backup data.

I would again choose only Synology or QNAP.