Advice on new nas

[siri_uk]

Hi guys, I'm looking for a new nas enclosure. I'm currently using a synology ds412+ that's started playing up a bit, I'm looking at either the synology ds416 play or the qnap ts453a 4gb. Does anyone have any recommendations which one to go for.

 

[mortmaru]

HP Microservers are better and cheaper.

I think the cashback deals are still running

 

[siri_uk]

Thanks for the reply just ordered a hp microserver gen 8, thanks again for the advice

 

[t3rminal]

Definitely a good choice purchasing the HP Microserver [emoji1360] Have you decided on an OS?

I run Ubuntu on mine and it's rock solid.


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[siri_uk]

I was thinking of going down the XPEnology route, would probably be easier for me to deal with at the beginning

 

[trickpaul]

Openmediavault is good and easy to setup

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[t3rminal]

Openmediavault is good and easy to setup

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I've used OMV as well as FreeNAS etc and always came back to Ubuntu. If all you want is a basic NAS drive to serve files then they are fine. If you want more functionality though I found the plugins etc were often out of date or it simply didn't support the applications I wanted to use.


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[trickpaul]

True, but I would stay with Linux tho as freenas and nas4free are based on BSD which I don't personally like but Ubuntu would be OK, or even xubuntu

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