Question What effect does slow home wifi connection has to do with NAS performance?

[modeonoff]

Hi, some people said that a slow home wifi connection has nothing to do with performance of the NAS. Others said the opposite. Who is correct?

At home, I use a DSL modern to connect to the internet. The download speed is up to 50 Mbps while the upload speed is up to 10 Mbps. How do such slow connection affect the NAS?

 

[USAFRet]

I consider to buy a USB-C dual-bay docking station for backup of my main PC while trying to decide if I would benefit from those more expensive NAS. After waiting for three years for Synology to release new models, I am a bit disappointed that at that price range, the AMD CPU does not have a GPU. I am also a bit afraid to go for QNAP due to the often heard ransomware attack.

At this stage, is it better to buy a dual-bay docking station while waiting for a suitable NAS or just go for a NAS or docking station and call it an end?

The QNAP attacks happened with systems that had not had the firmware updated in years.
Really.

As soon as it emerged, QNAP released a patch.
Additionally, only systems that were accessible from the outside world were vulnerable.

This is no different than a Windows or Linux system that has had updates purposely turned off.
Subject to whatever new malware is going around.
Keep your systems patched, and no issues.


"waiting for a suitable NAS"
What, in your terms, is "suitable"?

 

[USAFRet]

I am also a bit afraid to go for QNAP due to the often heard ransomware attack.

If you're going to avoid QNAP and its QTS due to attacks on it, then you'd also better avoid Windows, Linux, Apple, Android...

 

[modeonoff]

The QNAP attacks happened with systems that had not had the firmware updated in years.
Really.

As soon as it emerged, QNAP released a patch.
Additionally, only systems that were accessible from the outside world were vulnerable.

This is no different than a Windows or Linux system that has had updates purposely turned off.
Subject to whatever new malware is going around.
Keep your systems patched, and no issues.


"waiting for a suitable NAS"
What, in your terms, is "suitable"?

Hardware-wise, perhaps an upgraded version of QNAP TBS-464-8G-US and TBS-453DX-8G with higher RAM and NVME capacities, faster I/O, the latest CPU and perhaps an option to use HD (not that important)? Is this too much to ask? I think they have been around for a few years. Heard anything about possible new upgrade on these models?

 

[USAFRet]

Why those TBS things? Unless you have 10gbe throughout your network, NVMe in these is pretty much a waste.

Currently in my TS-453a I have 8+14+18+0.5. 40.5TB.
Unlikely I'd be replacing that with solid state anytime this decade.

 

[modeonoff]

I don't have very good experience with hard drives.