This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] More NAS advice, Qnap or Drobo? Or something else?

QNAP and Synology are pretty much the same IMO. They use off the shelf CPUs, mostly ARM and Intel, to control the RAID and their own Linux based OS.

Atom and Celeron tend to be used for home user NAS, i3/i5/i7 for small businesses and Xeon for enterprise solutions. The same OS is used for all the appliances and generally the hardware will dictate which feature is active. They have so much models that there are overlaps.

We have couple of QNAPs in house. A 5 bay NAS is connected via dual GbE to provide software archive for my department. A larger 16 bay NAS connected via 10Gb optical is being used to store camera originals. Both are great and no complaints.

Dom Q. Silverio

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Steve Hullfish Steve@veralith.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

QNAP for me. I've had it for five or six years. Lost one drive eventually, but the RAID was still valid after replacing it. It does a to of other cool stuff beyond its basic NAS-ness.

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On Apr 21, 2015, at 3:06 AM, 'Edit B' bouke@editb.nl [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Need a SAN, not too heavy (some 8 TB will be enough), just one workstation.
(But i need a NAS as i'm afraid it will be noixy, so moving it away would be
nice)

Any experiences with Qnap? Drobo? Something else?

Bouke

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