When I was in the market for a NAS a couple of years ago, I researched for at least 2 months before taking the plunge. I got a DS1511+ and upgraded the internal memory to 3Gb Myself (by adding a 2GB SODIMM).
Anyway, long story short, it's the best investment I've made. At my home I have 3 networked players. One in the kids room, one in the living room and one in our bedroom. I also have several Airport Expresses for streaming music in the living room and bedroom. I can stream 1080 HD content to all devices, stream music to all the airports and the NAS does torrent downloads and I can copy files to it via the network as well as copying files to/from the USB to an external HDD without breaking a sweat. Amazing performance, amazing reliability. I am using the SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID) FS and I have mixed and matched HDD sizes as well as manufacturers. Everything just works!! The initial volume creation took 24 hours though :) The web gui is nothing short of amazing. Get the DS1512. You will not be disappointed. The great thing is that if you do ever need extra space, you can get an enclosure from Synology and daisy chain them and get 5 more drive bays. I doubt I'll ever be needing that for the present moment. I have all 5 bays filled with 2TB's and am thinking of getting a couple of 3 TB's to increase the space a bit. I'm running at around 70% capacity. Oh yeah and one more thing. I have 2 Mac's at home (a Macbook and a Mac Mini). Both are being imaged (Time-Machine) to the Synology also. Just friggin fantastic!!! . On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:05 PM, DSinc <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, > I understand and salute your choice of Synology. Did you ever investigate > the > Netgear/ReadyNAS series? I've been using the ReadyNAS since 2008 on a > suggestion of another HWG List Member; and, I have had zero trouble. > Please check this out before you drop coin: > http://www.readynas.com/?cat=**49 <http://www.readynas.com/?cat=49> > > I own a Duo-V1 (discontinued), an Ultra 2, and, an Ultra 2+. My needs are > very > simple however; yet, my data is completely safe (to my belief anyway). > BTW, the new WDC 'REDS' are now appear to be fully qualified in the > ReadyNAS series. > Please see: > http://kb.netgear.com/app/**answers/detail/a_id/20686/<http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/20686/> > > Duncan > > On 08/28/2012 12:29, Gary Udstrand wrote: > >> I am about to take the plunge and replace my current NAS with a DS1512+ >> from Synology. I am aware of the issues they had with restarts but they >> supposedly have found the issue (bad flash RAM) and fixed the issue. I >> plan on populating it using the new WD Red (3TB) drives. >> >> I have seen mention that the price on the drives is ~180-190 but the >> prices >> I have seen are a lot more than that, times 5 it gets to be a fair chunk >> of >> change. I have seem them at NewEgg of $260 and Amazon for $230 (when they >> had them). NewEgg also had a limit of two. >> >> So, does anyone know of any place I can get 5 of these for a decent >> price? I want reliability and I think these are the best drives >> available >> for that, would love to hear any thoughts on my selections too. It is a >> lot of money for a NAS and I want to make sure that I am making the right >> choice. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> Gary >> http://www.twigsandtracks.com >> Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints >> Twigs and Tracks Blog Superior >> Sunrise<http://blog.**twigsandtracks.com/2012/03/08/** >> superior-sunrise/?utm_source=**rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_** >> campaign=superior-sunrise<http://blog.twigsandtracks.com/2012/03/08/superior-sunrise/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=superior-sunrise> >> > >> >> > -- Best Regards, Zulfiqar Naushad
