QNAP TVS-1282T-i5-16G, 8x 3.5” + 4x 2.5” drive bay, 16GB RAM, Thunderbolt £1899.99 @ BOX

Plus another 3 Grand for the drives.

Buckyball17/09/2019 09:56

Plus another 3 Grand for the drives.

Look on the bright side. If you need £3,000 of storage. This will keep it cozy and well controlled.

For normal folk, you could buy a tonne of externsl hard drives, connect them to your existing PC, allow sharing on network, possibly run a program like Plex and vwola, you have a similar setup for half the price.

Although for a large company that requires high speed delivered across site. This is a good deal. Way overkill for normal peops

Why would anyone need a qnap in their house?

I thought this was a microwave at first glance lol

I'm on a IT course, can some explain to me in simple term what this is and why I would want to use it? If you don't mind please.

PHL17/09/2019 12:03

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It's a professional grade network mass storage device. Basically a fancy Nas that is typically used in data centres. Nobody needs them at home IMO.

John-Mcevern17/09/2019 11:24

For normal folk, you could buy a tonne of externsl hard drives, connect …For normal folk, you could buy a tonne of externsl hard drives, connect them to your existing PC, allow sharing on network, possibly run a program like Plex and vwola, you have a similar setup for half the price.Although for a large company that requires high speed delivered across site. This is a good deal. Way overkill for normal peopsRead lessRead more

Repurpose a pc as an unraid Nas or build an energy efficient one for a fraction of this price.

Spark17/09/2019 12:23

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I wouldn't be putting one of these in any of my DCs.

We use it for our mass-storage in the video / image editing suite where we have 5-8 designers working. Also stores the companies docs and files. Does the job nicely

Spark17/09/2019 12:23

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Overkill for home and short of the mark for a DC, as @the__cat pointed out.

I have a 4 bay Qnap at home - it serves media to anyone in the house and uses a third of the electric that my i7 Home PC uses.

I find it useful for dropping movies, family photos and music onto.

Just buy a rack mount server instead, better processor, you can run zfs and much more memory for caching

It's a cheap price to pay to ensure the continued longevity and safety of one's "educational" movie collection of a more adult nature