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NAS - can't decide

I have QNAP TS-259 Pro at home and have been really impressed with the device. Haven't had any slowdowns and am using RAID-1, with connections to my workstations using smb and nfs, as well as iSCSI to my esxi server. It's been able to handle the job well.

In fact, it led me to buy the TS-879U-RP for work. We even had a HDD we installed fail on us and we were able to replace the drive witbout any down time. The onboard Linux system is accessible through SSH (however the filesystem is loaded onto a ramdisk at boot, so any changes to the files by hand are lost at reboot, unless you implement a startup script).

I've had no problems with the QNAP. Only thing i can think of is the price. I have a buddy who has a Synolgy and he has had no complaints with it.

I went for QNAP TS-459 PRO+ ... amazing little machine
...setting it up now and preparing to migrate data

reply to Brano
I run FreeNAS here on rather meager hardware that is typically thrown away because it's too slow for Windows.

The only upgrade I do is a $10 Intel GB ethernet card.

reply to Brano
Considering the forum you’ve posted in, I imagine you’re going to want something that does ZFS, so FreeBSD or Solaris.

reply to graysonf
I've considered FreeNAS and Openfiler but neither did fit my requirements completely (the requirements were not all of technical nature, some were business driven).

reply to Bink
FreeNAS is built on FreeBSD