{"id":249,"date":"2013-04-13T17:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2013-04-13T17:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T20:46:15","slug":"new-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pelleys.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"New NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

If anyone has happened to stumble upon this blog you will have noted that I really like Synology<\/a> NAS products. A couple of years ago I purchased a DS211j<\/a>\u00a0(since\u00a0superseded\u00a0by the DS212j<\/a>) and I have been quite satisfied. Since they have added both DHCP management and a DNS server to the official add-ons this is a real nice all-in-one solution. (If you want to see all the features, both native from Synology and via official third-party developers take a look at http:\/\/www.synology.com\/dsm\/index.php?lang=us<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

One things really, really bugged me, though. First, when you dropped a video into a published DLNA\/uPNP directory, indexing took forever to allow it to show up. This also applies for music and photos. I have tried various solutions but, frankly, indexing SUCKS! \u00a0I guess as part of this – call it part 1 (a) – is that the DLNA\/uPNP server seems to crash far too often. And when it crashed it seemed like you had to let the indexing start all over again! And it could take hours!<\/p>\n

Anyway, this was not impressing my wife and son very much. So, I went looking for an alternative which turned out to be from Qnap<\/a>. The model I chose was the TS-219P II<\/a>. I needed it to be cost effective (hence the two bay instead of four bay – which is my my Synology is also a two-bay…) and have a good DLNA\/uPNP server for videos. Qnap’s solution is to use the Twonky<\/a> product. While not nicely integrated like the Synology package is – Qnap’s is not branded or has the look-and-feel as the rest of the Qnap interface – it indexes almost immediately.<\/p>\n

It also gets the media off may main NAS which solves another problem that I had – storage space….<\/p>\n

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