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Key Features:
  • 4 x 3.5"/2.5" SATA III Drive Bays
  • 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron J4125 Quad-Core
  • 4GB of DDR4 RAM
  • 2 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
  • 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 | 3 x USB 2.0 | HDMI
  • RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD, and Single
  • Data Transfer Speeds up to 686 MB/s
  • AES-NI Hardware Encryption Engine
  • PCIe Gen 2.0 x2 Expansion Slot
  • QNAP QTS 4.4.2 OS
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They dont routinely get hacked, Synology has had just as many exposures to ransomware such as eCh0raix, brute force attacks happen.

The problem is as mentioned people open up the internet and use very easy to guess passwords, then they also dont update their environment regularly. Been running QNAP NAS devices for over 10 years now, not a single ransomware issue in my environment.

If you look at the majority of people who get hit with it, its people who haven't updated in a long time.



Its not much more secure, they had a vulnerability for well over a year after it was reported to them and still didnt do anything about it a few years ago.

They are definitely more "Apple like" I had synology units in the past they were nice, but the price tag for the hardware you got was not equal and now they lost their OS edge and QNAP OS in my opinion is way more powerful and also user friendly. That was not true 5 years ago.
You can still use it locally and just not expose it to the internet, which is probably best for sensitive data anyway.
Same thing happened to Synology users.

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alster
11-23-2022 at 07:40 PM.
11-23-2022 at 07:40 PM.
Traditionally speaking, one of the defining characteristics of a NAS was that it was a "computer", meant to by running 24x7, WHILE consuming (far) less power than it's equivalent PC build which could perform the same tasks.

Those lines have been skewed over the past decade but it probably still holds somewhat true.
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Sinbios
11-23-2022 at 08:02 PM.
11-23-2022 at 08:02 PM.
Quote from kherbinoskie :
All I know is I am not the one dying and begging people to tell me what NAS is and if I need it or not. laugh out loud

I am also not the person who stores their data on their PC.. Applause And proud to tell people on the interwebs that you only have 6TB on your PC. hahahahaha.. Wow.LMAO We're proud of you Applause

Note: The info you gave tells us everything about your tech level. We know.

Where did you even get 6TB from, you need to legit get checked for schizophrenia because you're experiencing a break from reality šŸ¤£

It's also really strange that not only are you afraid to reveal just how little you know about this topic, you're now trying to internet dick measure over how much data you have? Please get help šŸ™
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Kwincy
11-24-2022 at 12:31 PM.
11-24-2022 at 12:31 PM.
I bought this NAS two weeks ago from Amazon after my used 453B died. Chatted with Amazon a few nights ago and was told that they wouldn't price match themselves and to return the one I bought and buy it again at this lower price. I guess I'll be doing exactly that to save $100.
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uh2-2u
11-24-2022 at 02:26 PM.
11-24-2022 at 02:26 PM.
Quote from Kwincy :
I bought this NAS two weeks ago from Amazon after my used 453B died. Chatted with Amazon a few nights ago and was told that they wouldn't price match themselves and to return the one I bought and buy it again at this lower price. I guess I'll be doing exactly that to save $100.
I've had that happen before, it's crazy right? You're gonna make me return the item vs just giving me the price difference....and lose money in the process? Crazy.
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11-24-2022 at 02:49 PM.
11-24-2022 at 02:49 PM.
Quote from uh2-2u :
I've had that happen before, it's crazy right? You're gonna make me return the item vs just giving me the price difference....and lose money in the process? Crazy.
Yup, several years ago Amazon was so easy to do this via chat, but I guess they lost tons of $ because it was tooo easy. Now they make it difficult, but they are definitely still losing out cause returning items to drop shipping facilities is expensive and time consuming...

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UniqueWriter2103
11-24-2022 at 06:44 PM.
11-24-2022 at 06:44 PM.
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It should be simple to name a single thing this NAS lets you do that you cannot do on the PC, assuming you have free slots in the PC.

If this is so difficult to answer then I question why *you* use this.

If you don't know why you need a NAS then you probably don't need it. It is a very advanced and specialized device. if you want to buy something that helps with storage maybe try Dropbox pro.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...ed_storage

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNAS

https://www.techtarget.com/search...ed-storage
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11-24-2022 at 07:00 PM.
11-24-2022 at 07:00 PM.
Quote from Sinbios :
Thanks, that's pretty much what I figured but I thought somebody might have had some use case where a NAS made their life much easier.

A NAS can make your life easier if you know what it is and how to use it.
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AquaGalley8616
11-24-2022 at 07:14 PM.
11-24-2022 at 07:14 PM.
the chipset in this NAS is the same chipset that is in Acer Refurb PC for 88 dollars that many of us on SlickDeals bought this year.
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Sinbios
11-24-2022 at 08:57 PM.
11-24-2022 at 08:57 PM.
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A NAS can make your life easier if you know what it is and how to use it.

I guess I'll ask the same thing I asked the other guy - what's one thing you use it for that can't be done using a PC? Please don't go down the same path of "you must not know anything and it's not my job to educate you" he did, I run my own raid arrays and plex server on my PC.
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TerenceP
11-24-2022 at 09:04 PM.
11-24-2022 at 09:04 PM.
Quote from Sinbios :
I guess I'll ask the same thing I asked the other guy - what's one thing you use it for that can't be done using a PC? Please don't go down the same path of "you must not know anything and it's not my job to educate you" he did, I run my own raid arrays and plex server on my PC.
If you use docker running stuff in the background is trivial setupwise, you probably don't need a Nas. For me my main PC has a high endish GPU and CPU so it's pretty power hungry and generates quite a bit of heat idle esp during the summer, so I like to run media servers and storage stuff off my Nas.
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11-24-2022 at 09:06 PM.
11-24-2022 at 09:06 PM.
Quote from Sinbios :
I guess I'll ask the same thing I asked the other guy - what's one thing you use it for that can't be done using a PC? Please don't go down the same path of "you must not know anything and it's not my job to educate you" he did, I run my own raid arrays and plex server on my PC.

Nothing. If you enjoy playing sysadmin at home (and there's nothing wrong with that) you can likely get a better bang for your buck with a 'home' PC or a decommissioned server.
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11-24-2022 at 09:07 PM.
11-24-2022 at 09:07 PM.
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If you use docker running stuff in the background is trivial setupwise, you probably don't need a Nas. For me my main PC has a high endish GPU and CPU so it's pretty power hungry and generates quite a bit of heat idle esp during the summer, so I like to run media servers and storage stuff off my Nas.

Yeah I can see it being useful if you don't leave your PC on 24/7, I do though so was wondering if there's some other point to it.
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11-24-2022 at 10:42 PM.
11-24-2022 at 10:42 PM.
Quote from Sinbios :
Yeah I can see it being useful if you don't leave your PC on 24/7, I do though so was wondering if there's some other point to it.
Oh yeah they other guy brings up a good point, if you don't want to do sysadmin stuff. Qnap and Synology Nas units can set up a decent Nas and media server with wizards along with general best practices and other things already implemented like alert notifications, health checks and security warnings. The package managers all have prevetted software that install with a click. Anything from apache http, oidc servers, Plex, etc. My Synology took like an hour to set up. So I guess for someone like me that doesn't wanna do work like this at home, this stuff is great.
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11-24-2022 at 11:05 PM.
11-24-2022 at 11:05 PM.
Quote from Sinbios :
I guess I'll ask the same thing I asked the other guy - what's one thing you use it for that can't be done using a PC? Please don't go down the same path of "you must not know anything and it's not my job to educate you" he did, I run my own raid arrays and plex server on my PC.

Your asking a trick question. A PC is not usually designed to function as a NAS. But I said a NAS "CAN" make your life easier. Enterprise class NAS systems can do things your PC can't do. For example your PC probably doesn't have redundant power. Whereas a NetApp NAS would.


But time has value and if you consider the setup time and maintenance time it is a lot cheaper (time wise) to just buy the consumer grade NAS and configure it than to try to build a comparable storage system on your own. And don't forget about backups. You probably want 3 copies of your data. So your desktop is one copy but where do you put the other two? This consumer grade NAS is cheaper than buying another PC with hot swappable drive bays and raid arrays. You also have to consider the space the NAS device takes up compared to your PC.
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11-25-2022 at 08:21 AM.
11-25-2022 at 08:21 AM.
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Re Synology: " ...Their software is much more secure and "Apple like" than QNAP"
Neither Synology or QNAP are model corporate citizens regarding its customers but I'll take QNAP because we don't need another "Apple", especially in the NAS market. Over the last few years, Synology has been moving towards a closed proprietary system, taking the cue from Apple, that their user base is their private kingdom to exploit and extort. Just like Apple, Synology will take commodity parts, modify with "enhancements" which their OS will now require. If missing, it becomes unrecognized or warnings that the "unclean" component may corrupt the system. Synology will refuse support if you have anything but Synology RAM which just happens to cost 3X (or more) the price of standard RAM. Synology has recently started to sell their own hard drives which are nothing more than rebadged Toshiba with customized firmware. Unsurprisingly, new OS releases now send dire warning messages about using non-approved hard drives.

Final example, about 2 years ago, Synology became aware that users had found a method to use BTRFS on the lower end Synology NAS devices. Without any notice, Synology put out a new OS which prevented the users from accessing their data. Synology forced the users to either convert to a different file system (which Synology controlled) or migrate to a more expensive NAS.

Apologize for the rant but wanted to give a little perspective on Synology. BTW, when I decided to implement a NAS, I chose QNAP specifically because of Synology's business practices and never regretted.
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