Hi,
I am looking for a 2 bay NAS for a small business that is to be used as their file storage location and enable them to remotely access the files. It's mainly going to be small Office files, no large files like videos or the like. I don't need it to be fancy or anything other than that.
I have these 3 models available
Synology DS220j
Synology DS218
SQNAPTS-230
The only real difference I can see between the DS220j and DS218 is 0.5GB vs 2GB RAM and drives being hot swappable on DS218 (which I don't need). I have used other Synology devices recently so I am more familiar but have used one QNAP in the past
They only require 1TB of storage so I want 2 drives in RAID 1 mirror but I am unsure if to go for SSD's or HDD's. The WD Red HDD and the other NAS specific HDD's all seem to be in much larger capacities than I really need.
So this leads me onto, do I really need a "NAS" HDD or would something like the WD Purple surveillance HDD be ok?
I just want this to be as reliable as possible and I did read this from a post 3 years ago so not sure if it is still valid as SSD tech has moved on over the years
Thanks
I am looking for a 2 bay NAS for a small business that is to be used as their file storage location and enable them to remotely access the files. It's mainly going to be small Office files, no large files like videos or the like. I don't need it to be fancy or anything other than that.
I have these 3 models available
Synology DS220j
Synology DS218
SQNAPTS-230
The only real difference I can see between the DS220j and DS218 is 0.5GB vs 2GB RAM and drives being hot swappable on DS218 (which I don't need). I have used other Synology devices recently so I am more familiar but have used one QNAP in the past
They only require 1TB of storage so I want 2 drives in RAID 1 mirror but I am unsure if to go for SSD's or HDD's. The WD Red HDD and the other NAS specific HDD's all seem to be in much larger capacities than I really need.
So this leads me onto, do I really need a "NAS" HDD or would something like the WD Purple surveillance HDD be ok?
I just want this to be as reliable as possible and I did read this from a post 3 years ago so not sure if it is still valid as SSD tech has moved on over the years
- SSD will make your array less reliable due to highly correlated failures due to exact same wear. Also, go with SLC cache, MLC in the absolute crunch and never TLC or worse (e.g. QLC)
Thanks