So far my favorite feature is that I can access the nas from work and finish setting it up remotely Then I'll figure out how to use it as a private dropbox source (synced to a remote/mobile workstation)

Then I'll take on Plex - if Plex support is important to you, read up on the caveats. Next step is transmission and get reconnected to the private trackers I'm onĪfter that is establishing an S3 account for offsite replication I already have time machine backups going and that seems to be working well I have a lot of exp with Synology as I've recommended them to clients that wanted a local, on site archive for their files so finally bit the bullet and recommended one for myself. It's dead quiet and my wife hasn't complained about the new blinkenlights in our bedroom! I have the 216play setup with 2 WD Red 3TB disks in a RAID0. If would have seen a comparable qnap at a price that couldn't be beat, I'd have been just as happy with that. For home use, I like the synology just a little bit better. I like QNAP's as well, for small/medium businesses looking for some quality, they are equal. but if you dont need the transcoding on the fly feature, look at the other 216's. keep an eye on camelcamelcamel for a good pricing. Like a lot of other posters, I'd prefer 4 disks to 2 but I just don't have the budget. Two years into this particular setup and no complaints about any of them.įunny that this comes up now, I -just- put together a 216play last night. It seems to be a best practice to mix drive manufacturers in your setup (identical matched drives from the same manufacturer might all wear at the same rate, and then possibly fail at near the same time.) I have four WD Reds and one Seagate in my NAS. The OS is very solid and gets frequent feature upgrades (new version 6 coming shortly with BTRFS support among dozens of other things) and most hardware seems to get 4-5 years of OS support. To use Time Machine you'll have to enable AFP, as the former does not support SMB. Haven't tried it as a time machine back up but I do use the QNAP dropbox like functionality to great success across computers and ipads/iphones. I use SMB support, not Apple File Sharing since that has been depreciated by apple.

I've got a weird connection issue to it when I have less than ideal wifi signal on my laptop - wired machines have no problem though. I have a QNAP 851Pro (I think that is the model number)

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