NAS Solution

I have budgeted $1300 for Network NAS 5 bay diskstation solution for use with several macs with FCPX. Looking to purchase the Synology Ds1515+ or Ds1515, adding 5 4tb drives too.

www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515
www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+


Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance.
Bill

Hey Bill,

What will be the use of your NAS ?
I've got a bunch of synology and they work amazingly well for archiving FCPX projects, events etc.
They simply are the best NAS theses days, and a little more expensive than others as well. I can recommend their DSM, ie interface, it's powerful and at the same time quiet easy to use and understand.

But I wont consider it as a DAS, it wont hold sufficient transfer rates to work with FCPX.

Dimitri.

Yes, I was considering using it like a external HDD. Archiving too.

But my primary thought process was to use it for projects/libraries.

I don't want to make a mistake purchasing it if it's not going to perform as needed.

The drives are WD red 4tb @7200rpm.

Do you recommend another with sufficient transfer rates? What would be sufficient?

Thanks

Well, I wont recommend a NAS for Projects/libraries storage.
I tried some time ago with my Syno DS 215 and the transfer rates were on the 40-50 MB/sec. I was using RAID 1 though, which is the slowest RAID. But there was some slugginess anyway.
You can use it for FCPX Backups and archiving.

You should aim for a Thunderbolt or at least a USB RAID Disk Attached Storage.
Im using 2 different LACIE for this purpose.
www.lacie.com/fr/products/product.htm?id=10623
You will find threads on this forum about different options.

Im also using an external USB3 SSD when Im on my laptop, and it works great.