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- Oct 14, 2011
- Location
- Southern Indiana
NAS for storage, streaming, hosting & Routing!
I've read over another NAS thread of someone who was looking for a 4 bay.
I'm only needing a 2 bay system myself. (haven't decided if i would raid for backup or not yet) What I would like for it to do, (aside from 'as much as possible') is the following..
* Price (dont want to go much over $300. Anything over that it starts to become more feasible to just build a mini computer to do the same work)
* File Sharing (dua)
* Streaming (to other devices such as game consoles and mobile devices)
* FTP (like to be able to send/retrieve information remotely like from work)
* Printer sharing (this is becoming less of an issue. I currently do not have a printer, and most newer ones have networking built in, but i would be nice to have this option just in case)
* Web hosting (this isnt a must, but it would be nice if i could host a website within it that could run SQL and such.
* Serving - ( i would LOVE it if i could host servers on this thing. Such as Vent or Teamspeak. Not sure if the Nas' are that utilitarian or not, but it would be nice.
The two models im looking at are as follows. Outlined by what I see are differences.
Synology DS212
- Supports USB 3.0
QNAP TS-219PII-US
- Faster Processor
- More memory
It would seem, overall that the QNap would perform better, but i know little about Qnap hardware.
Can anyone provide insight to these, or other NAS systems that might fit the bill?
I've read over another NAS thread of someone who was looking for a 4 bay.
I'm only needing a 2 bay system myself. (haven't decided if i would raid for backup or not yet) What I would like for it to do, (aside from 'as much as possible') is the following..
* Price (dont want to go much over $300. Anything over that it starts to become more feasible to just build a mini computer to do the same work)
* File Sharing (dua)
* Streaming (to other devices such as game consoles and mobile devices)
* FTP (like to be able to send/retrieve information remotely like from work)
* Printer sharing (this is becoming less of an issue. I currently do not have a printer, and most newer ones have networking built in, but i would be nice to have this option just in case)
* Web hosting (this isnt a must, but it would be nice if i could host a website within it that could run SQL and such.
* Serving - ( i would LOVE it if i could host servers on this thing. Such as Vent or Teamspeak. Not sure if the Nas' are that utilitarian or not, but it would be nice.
The two models im looking at are as follows. Outlined by what I see are differences.
Synology DS212
- Supports USB 3.0
QNAP TS-219PII-US
- Faster Processor
- More memory
It would seem, overall that the QNap would perform better, but i know little about Qnap hardware.
Can anyone provide insight to these, or other NAS systems that might fit the bill?
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