I was a Synology NAS user for the last 15 years and was looking to upgrade my 15 year old 12 bay Synology NAS.
I love the powerful Synology OS and how reliable it is, unfortunately my 15 year old NAS cannot receive any new updates and is restricted to max 6tb hard drives. The processor of my Synology NAS was also under, but it was more than enough to handle NAS tasks.
I was looking at the higher up models of Synology for more powerful processors for hardware encoding and running VMs. To my disappointment, those models only support Synology labeled hard drives which are 3 times more expensive while being slower.
So, I looked at QNAP, even though there was some bad press about hacking and ransomware attacks on their NASes. These concerns very quickly dispelled after I started using theses NASes.
The TVS-h874X comes with an i9 Intel processor and 64GB ram. It also has 2 * 10G Ethernet included, with the latest USB A and C ports. There’s also an available PCIe gen 4 slot for either adding a powerful graphics card or expansion card. This is incredibly powerful capabilities for a NAS.
I have added a 16 bay expansion to this NAS by buying a QNAP expansion bay directly from QNAP. I populated the 8 bays on my NAs as well as 12 * 3.5” bays on the expansion with Seagate exos 20tb hard drives. I also added 4*2tb 2.5” SSDs on the enclosure, giving an incredibly powerful and vast storage.
The TVS-h874X also has 2*M.2 NVMe slots, which I populated with 2*2tb M.2 NVMe drives. I set this up as raid1 and used it to install the QuTS hero operating system for maximum speed.
The QuTS hero operating system supports the robust self correcting ZFS file system, making it an incredibly powerful and reliable NAS. QNAP also lets you access my NAS anywhere in the world without opening my home network via ddns. This is really secure and makes it incredibly useful.
I also have subscribed to their “myQNAP cloud” to store some of the NAS files of site with the QNAP hybrid backup.
For security it has two factor authentication, built in firewall, antivirus apps etc. All of these are pretty powerful and similar to the firewall on Pfsense. I can restrict by domain. Countries etc. Great. I feel that my QNAP NASes have Pfsense level security which is very secure.
It helps to be pretty experienced with Pfsense, but their instructions and videos on YouTube make it easy for everyone to use.
They also have container station and a VM station for virtual machines. The i9 Intel cpu can easily handle this.
This is far beyond what I was hoping for in Synology. I am now a QNAP convert. I bought 2 of these usines for replication and data spill over.
Highly recommended! I am a convert.
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