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kleinbl00  ·  3927 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Okay, Hubski, talk me out of $2k worth of Sinology and WD Reds.

So riddle me this, Batman - why QNAP over Synology? 'cuz that's a decision that matters to me.

Seems'a'me that in 5-drive land, QNAP runs me 870 bucks. For my additional $100, I get a bunch of media center features - an HDMI port, for example, and a media-centric approach. Which is kind of cool, but I have to remind myself that I have a near-useless Roku that speaks XBMC just fine.

I also note that if I look up "QNAP Time Machine" I get a bunch more people bitching than I do when I google "Synology Time Machine." both of them support it natively, both of them are not without their problems, but it appears that Synology pushed an update five months ago that made things better.

That's probably what it's down to - a 5-bay Synology or a 5-bay QNAP. $750 vs $870.

Thoughts?