HP Microserver vs Synology 413j

Question

HP

Hi all!

At the moment, there is a painful problem of choosing these two devices :)
What is needed from the purchased piece of iron:
1. Main task: Sharing files of various calibers (from Word docs to BDRemuxes) via WiFi (the device will be connected to the TL- access point WA901ND ), downloading torrents.
2. Convenient HDD replacement. Initially, it is planned to take 4x500GB and in the future to replace 1 disk as needed.
3. Convenient web panel.
4. The possibility of at least a minimal upgrade of iron.
5. Acceptable storage performance/reliability.
6. Reasonable price.
In case of purchase of HP Microserver it is planned to deliver FreeNAS. I drove it in a virtual machine - I liked it. I would like to hear feedback on this system, what jambs did you encounter? Are there even more advanced alternatives?
Synology visually loves all that DSM that comes with it. Again, the question is about the stability of all this, what are the shortcomings?

In the case of buying an HP Microserver and choosing FreeNAS, the question remains of a gradual upgrade of the HDD. After reading the reviews on the network, they recommend raising RAID-Z, but it does not know how to gradually increase the amount of storage, but only after replacing all 4 disks.
Synology with their Synology Hybrid RAID is better with this - judging by the pictures and docks, the storage will increase with the replacement of every second drive. Who dealt with him - is everything so smooth?

In the case of buying Synology, we get a piece of hardware specially sharpened for the front of tasks with the ability to upgrade only the HDD. This is a little depressing.

Well, for the price of course. Synology is 1.5 times more expensive than HP Microserver. Is he worth it?

Answer 1

You can choose HP Microserver and put Synology (XPEnology) on it xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6

Answer 2

From the bookmarks: habrahabr.ru/post/119257/
After this article, I'm drooling over HP Microserver
Do not forget about the possibility of an upgrade.
My neighbor took HP, put an ssd for the system there (it fits like a 5th disk), bought more RAM, put a gigbit card and is happy :)

Answer 3

Synology has excellent software, everything works out of the box without unnecessary troubles. If you don’t even want to think about it, then Synology

Answer 4

I, as the owner of about the same Synology (older but higher class - I can’t say for sure the model, maybe ds410 or 411) I advise Synology!
A convenient, updatable even on ancient pieces of iron, DSM corresponds to the tasks you have voiced. If you format disks in their RAID, then in theory you can easily replace disks with more capacious ones.
In terms of versatility, I’ll say this - inside there is the same UNIX, so for example, it’s not very difficult for me to solve the problem of backing up my combat server using rsnapshot for a task in the crown.

Answer 5

For an alternative to FreeNAS, there is OpenMediaVault , which is made by the FreeNAS developer, but only on Debian. FreeNAS 0.7 coped with the task of jumping through transmission, but it had some problems with RAID (I don’t remember that anymore). Then there was version 0.8. It is faster, but I could not install the package I needed due to lack of space on the system partitions (the standard programs did not want to, but the external ones did not work). But he worked for about a year, until the system manager died.
Now I have DS413. About 500 meters are spent under the screw system. Now I set up a vpn server, transmission (adding a packet source), a video server. Raising a web server is not a problem (php, mysql). His load on the percentage is about 5-10%, mainly due to the recalculation of the raid. RAM is consumed about 100 meters (about 200 jumps in torrents). The CPU only loaded when I sent him pictures and he started indexing them (I need to convert photos for the built-in photo application). In the summer I want to buy a microserver for a smart home and a web server.