Hello,
I'm interested in buying my first NAS, and in the 6 bay category, these two caught my eye.
I'm curious what the actual practical difference is between them. I can see the difference in the specs (the most critical seeming to be the difference in CPU cores), but without practical experience with NASes, I'm not really sure how to translate that into the real world. So my question is: given the following conditions, what is the actual real-world difference between them? What can I do with the 918+ that I cannot do with the 619slim?
I'm interested in buying my first NAS, and in the 6 bay category, these two caught my eye.
I'm curious what the actual practical difference is between them. I can see the difference in the specs (the most critical seeming to be the difference in CPU cores), but without practical experience with NASes, I'm not really sure how to translate that into the real world. So my question is: given the following conditions, what is the actual real-world difference between them? What can I do with the 918+ that I cannot do with the 619slim?
- Router: Synology rt2600ac (so, at best, I think I can connect to any NAS at 2Gbps?)
- NAS RAM: Maxed in either case (6GB for 620slim; 8GB for 918+)
- HDDs: SSD storage (I'm willing to invest in these as I am in an environment that might not be that friendly to spinning hard drives: my desk is not level and there is a significant dust issue, and there's not much I can do to mitigate either right now).
- Intended Uses (In Order of Importance): Cloud service (e.g., Dropbox) replacement; networked backup; Storage for large video files; Plex server (maybe later?); etc.