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I need to purchase an NAS for my office with at least 6TB of space. The last couple of day I have been reading Amazon reviews, website info, and anything I can get my hands on and it seems to be between Synology and QNAP.

Some of the reviews suggest that Synology has power supply problems and QNAP has various problems.

Can someone recommend the best NAS for my purposes?
Thank you ahead.
 
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There are horrible stories on every manufactures of NAS. i guess you have to know what are you're looking for.
NFS, SMB, AFP, SFTP, ISCSI, Dual GbE with bonding, transfer rate, hardware RAID or software RAID. What is your NAS use for Database? or just simple library of data

I know for fact those mention NAS are not HW raid
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Either way you go, Synology and QNAP are both going to be the top recommendations probably for most small home and business needs. I've used some Synology NAS devices in the past for customers and never have had a problem with them. There's a lot of different options out there, though, depending upon the features that you need and your budget. A power supply failure is obviously a risk, just like a hard drive failure, but it is expensive to find the NAS units that are dual-redundant power supply compatible, and those are pretty much rackmount units as well and I don't know if you want a unit quite that big or expensive.
 
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There are horrible stories on every manufactures of NAS. i guess you have to know what are you're looking for.
NFS, SMB, AFP, SFTP, ISCSI, Dual GbE with bonding, transfer rate, hardware RAID or software RAID. What is your NAS use for Database? or just simple library of data

I know for fact those mention NAS are not HW raid
 
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I just purchased the Netgear ReadyNAS 300 Series 314. It will be here today so I will give it a try in the next day or so. The main reason I purchased the NAS is it comes with drives and it seems the best price for the complete package.

We will C!
Thanks for your help
 
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Yes certainly. Although any drive will die at some point. Hopefully in a raid configuration if a drive dies I can hot swap it out without the loss of data.

But to be sure all the drives that I am using now will be "copied" to the new NAS, so IF something goes south I will always have the original drives to go back to and at worst case scenario I may lose some new data.

But unless I want a NAS to back up the NAS to backup the drives, this will have to do for now.

Thanks for your concern, always appreciated.
 
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