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NAS drives comparable to 600GB 15K RPM SAS 12Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive

Comparing a Synology NAS device to a 2016 server standard with PDC, no exchange (moving to 365), with business apps like quick books and other time entry applications, and as a file server.

Thanks to member(s) of EE bringing to light Western Digital drives I thought were decent for the NAS they are not as high quality as the drives I'm quoting in the Server.

Question, what NAS device drives do EEr's recommend that are equivalent to 600GB 15K RPM SAS 12Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive?

Davis McCarn

Since you need to have the quickbooks database server running on the host pc, NAS' won't work for hosting the database:
https://quickbooks.intuit.com/community/Install/Quickbooks-2016-on-NAS/td-p/204756

But; I would suggest you check the pricing for SSDs in the server and maybe even avoid SAS if possible.

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Since you need to have the quickbooks database server running on the host pc, NAS' won't work for hosting the database:

We're getting a server regardless for domain/PDC, DHCP, DNS, security, etc and so applications can run. Question is make it into a file server as well or attach a NAS. Price and performance being the variables.

I would suggest you check the pricing for SSDs in the server and maybe even avoid SAS if possible.

Agree but for this particular case they've run on SAS 15K for the last five years and the performance is great for them. Goal is to not go down in performance. SSD's are great but the price is double if not higher.

Davis McCarn

If you use an NAS for file storage, that will work for accessing everything except the QuickBooks data which would need to effectively be hosted on the server. As long as you have a minimum of a 1Gbps network connection to the NAS, you ought to be OK.
As a note; though, SSDs are pretty cheap as long as they are not connected to a proprietary raid controller.

David Johnson, CD

SATA 7200 740 iops 345 ms latency Queue Depth 256
SAS15K 2,500 iops 100ms latency Queue Depth 256

SATA 7.2K has an average 75 IOPS 40-107MB/s
SAS 15K 115-203 IOPS 58-120 MB/s

WD Reds seem to be the gold standard these days.

Question is make it into a file server as well or attach a NAS. For my money turn it into a file server.
Here is a good review of a new Synology 1219+.. Note the cpu is old, the expandability is minimal 1 PCIe x 4 slot

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NAS drives comparable to 600GB 15K RPM SAS 12Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive

Thanks for all the info. Mainly I was after a comparable or better drive.