| Technology not having a feature at all, or majorly in the way advertised is a massive pain. The WD hard drive fiasco was bad too. Looking at your list, I ended up going with QNAP to be safe .. for flexibility to get anything I needed the way I wanted to. The choices at the time were a ARM based CPU or intel celeron with very low power. I went with the latter, to realize I probably would have been good as well with the Synology I was eyeing. The bliss of set and forget, and multiple types and locations of backups happening with good reliability is thanks to one change in the NAS space. Existing players were expensive, and to the degree that there is profit in large enterprise storage customers wanting a backup locally in each field office for example, the NAS industry has been able to provide enterprise class features down market relatively quick and affordably. Your posts made me recall how much I had to research the enterprise features to try and find what I wanted, equivalently in a NAS, and it ended up definitely on the Prosumer/SMB models, but ultimately in the high throughput NAS' that focused on video. I somehow ended up with 2.5 GbE so long ago. In my case I could have just bought used fibre channel scsi enclosures, but I wanted to be mindful of power needs, and in turn backup power. It wasn't an ideal time to buy then, but is much better now. In fact, I can probably buy a second or third used version on what I have and it will work together pretty OK, including ECC if I want. I try and remember to follow a rule to spend and buy 10-15% more capacity than I need when buying, if not one level up to get true long term utility value. For example, always at least 2 more empty drive bays than you need. If you're buying a car, consider a hatchback. If your'e buying a hatchback, consider a small SUV, etc. Buy a little bigger and nicer to let your life grow into it, or buy thrice. |