QNAP - NAS box - any good?

[adamchapman]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm looking around for NAS boxes at the minute and wondered if anyone has had any experience of QNAP.

 

I've found an 8TB box with Dual Gigabit for £900, just thought it might be a bit on the cheap and nasty side??? When a Netgear for example is £1,800 for a similar storage capacity

[pete]

Unless you're looking at the home user stuff, that box probably doesn't have disks included. I suspect the Netgear does.

 

IME (TS-239 Pro at home, about to buy a bigger one for replacement remote backup at work) they kick arse, but they are reassuringly expensive.

 

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com has reviews of most nas hardware.

[adamchapman]

cheers.

 

See the thing worrying me is that they do come with drives! I just can't work out why they're se cheap!

QNAP TS-419U Turbo NAS - NAS - 8 TB - rack-mount... - TS-419U/8TB at Insight UK

[adamchapman]

QNAP Systems, Inc. ( TS-419U Turbo NAS ) - Quality Network Appliance Provider

[pete]

cheers.

 

See the thing worrying me is that they do come with drives! I just can't work out why they're se cheap!

 

Historically, the 419 line has been underpowered compared to the 439 line and it's using a Marvell 1.2 GHz, which makes me wonder. Try to get benchmarks for sustained write performance. There's some general nas benchmarks, but that model isn't mentioned: NAS Performance Comparison Charts - 1000 Mbps Average Write Performance