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Should I buy the 104?
Hello, I'm about to dip my toe in the NAS pool... Currently weighing up the DS413j vs. RN104 (planning to use 4x3Tb Toshiba DT01ABA in either). I'm both excited and cautious about the idea of BT...
Synology's interface is just wow, that's a fact.
OS6 had some problems with stability but this is actually being fixed by firmware updates. You would have asked the same question 1 month ago I would have said avoid ReadyNAS, now they are perfectly usable. The interface is classical but pretty simple to use. I still miss some things Synology has like a firewall or a mail server but the price is not the same, got 239€ for the RN104 (which I've often seen discounted) and 299€ for the DS413J. The DS413 comes with 1.6Ghz though meaning it should be faster but only has 1Ethernet port. That's up to you to decide.
RN104 gives 90-95Mbyte/s read and 40-50Mbytes/s write with 4*4Tb seagate NAS HDD raid 5.
The torrent app is there but I believe Crashplan will require more memory than what either of those models can provide. The RN104 memory is NON-upgradable. I don't know for DS413J but I believe it's the same.
you can test the interfaces of the Netgear : http://apps.readynas.com/pages/?page_id=143 and the sinology http://www.synology.com/fr-fr/products/dsm_livedemo
OS6 had some problems with stability but this is actually being fixed by firmware updates. You would have asked the same question 1 month ago I would have said avoid ReadyNAS, now they are perfectly usable. The interface is classical but pretty simple to use. I still miss some things Synology has like a firewall or a mail server but the price is not the same, got 239€ for the RN104 (which I've often seen discounted) and 299€ for the DS413J. The DS413 comes with 1.6Ghz though meaning it should be faster but only has 1Ethernet port. That's up to you to decide.
RN104 gives 90-95Mbyte/s read and 40-50Mbytes/s write with 4*4Tb seagate NAS HDD raid 5.
The torrent app is there but I believe Crashplan will require more memory than what either of those models can provide. The RN104 memory is NON-upgradable. I don't know for DS413J but I believe it's the same.
you can test the interfaces of the Netgear : http://apps.readynas.com/pages/?page_id=143 and the sinology http://www.synology.com/fr-fr/products/dsm_livedemo
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