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Dominick1
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Apr 30, 2012

Readynas vs Synology

Hi, I am new to the entire nas idea, But since we're working on several computers and we pay a lot of money every month to dropbox to keep our data synced somebody suggested me to get a nas. So I...
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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
May 03, 2012
boogerme wrote:
The other thing to consider is that the Synology units have more features over the Readynas.

For example the Synology has an email server built in where the readynas doesn't.

More features needing to be maintained doesn't necessarily make it better. The ReadyNAS maintains a good balance between having lots of features and maintaining features well.
boogerme wrote:

Not all versions of the readynas support ftp whereas all (i think) of the Synology units do.

As of 5.3.5 for ARM (currently in public beta) all ReadyNAS models have FTP.

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