Are QNap any good?

[ratty6464]

As the title suggests, are QNap any good?

Looking at this http://www.qnap.com/uk/index.php?lang=en-uk&sn...
Haven't used a nas before so unsure, it seems good from the spec but you never know if it works in real life and is easy to use.

Have a decent tv and very good stereo and home cinema, so looking for this to store hd movies and some supplemental music.

[ratty6464]

cheers for the info. I was planning to put it out of the way in the cupboard and have it connected to the router through the mains system on a TP link.

Fanless attracted me due to increased durability and reduced energy use, but will check out the other versions. Sounds like they are a decent make to go for.

[NH1]

I've got the 212, the only drawback is the processors in them aren't powerful enough to transcode video, so you have to have the film in a format the TV is happy with. This can be a problem if you have 2 different make TV's, you would then have to get a seperate media player (western digital for eg) that can play them. I think a HP microserver is powerful enough to transcode.

[51mes]

My Employer OEM's these as desktop devices and small office rackmount file servers...

Top notch pieces of kit

I've a couple of the rack mount larger ones in the lab at the office and they are great as file shares, iSCSI devices, ftp/web server, or migration devices where we need to move large chunks of data around easily and simply.

User interface is great too.

[ratty6464]

NH1 said:

I've got the 212, the only drawback is the processors in them aren't powerful enough to transcode video, so you have to have the film in a format the TV is happy with. This can be a problem if you have 2 different make TV's, you would then have to get a seperate media player (western digital for eg) that can play them. I think a HP microserver is powerful enough to transcode.

They sound spot on. May go for one of the 212s. For the streaming, it can go through the ps3 then the av amp so shouldn't need to worry about transcoding on the fly. Would prob look to have it setup on a mirrored raid array.

[NH1]

ratty6464 said:

NH1 said:

I've got the 212, the only drawback is the processors in them aren't powerful enough to transcode video, so you have to have the film in a format the TV is happy with. This can be a problem if you have 2 different make TV's, you would then have to get a seperate media player (western digital for eg) that can play them. I think a HP microserver is powerful enough to transcode.

They sound spot on. May go for one of the 212s. For the streaming, it can go through the ps3 then the av amp so shouldn't need to worry about transcoding on the fly. Would prob look to have it setup on a mirrored raid array.

I would say thats more of a problem than a solution, my toshiba TV in the bedroom will only play .MKV files plus a couple of obscure other ones yet my PS3 downstairs will not play .MKV but will play .MP4. However when I used a windows 7 machine as the streamer everythng played on everything (the PC was obviously transcoding them).

[conkerman]

Rip as VOB and get hold of a WD live or similar. You keep all the menus etc. Works perfectly for series dvds.