On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:50 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:40:46 -0700 > David Gibbons <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I've been very happy with my Synology, replaced a home built Freenas > >and lost none of the features/functionality I was using in freenas. > >Less management overhead, lower power usage. A+++ Would buy again. > > Thanks to all for the suggestions. > > I am currently considering a Synology DS216j with one 6TB Western > Digital Red Pro drive (WD6002FFWX). The DS216j has two bays so I can > add a second drive later. The Red Pro drives have a five-year warranty > as opposed to a three-year warranty for the regular red drives. Both > Western Digital and Synology list this combination as compatible. > > I assume the connection will be by NFS. That bothers me because I once > spent a month fiddling with my laptop and desktop computers trying to > get the desktop to mount a USB drive attached to the laptop. I never > succeeded. > > Most NAS devices support multiple protocols. NFS is relatively rare these days. I would expect it to support SMB (Windows-style file sharing) which is supported fairly ubiquitously. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
