Synology DiskStation vs. TrueNAS

Synology DiskStation

90 Reviews and Ratings

TrueNAS

47 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DiskStation	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	DiskStation is a line of network-attached storage (NAS) solutions from Synology headquartered in Taiwan.	N/A
TrueNAS	Score9.5 out of 10	N/A	TrueNAS is a network-attached storage featuring all-flash and hybrid storage editions, from iXsystems headquartered in San Jose.	$0 per month

Pricing

DiskStation

TrueNAS

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Pricing Offerings
DiskStation	TrueNAS
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	DiskStation	TrueNAS
Considered Both Products	Synology Tomasz Lipinski Director of New Technologies and Development in Information Technology at Lemon Pro (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose DiskStation Easy setup. Good price for TB. Easily accessible hdd drives. Thanks to e-mail notification. In the event of a disk failure, I will immediately get a notification to replace the HDD. Incentivized Helpful?	iXsystems Howard Clarke System/Network Administrator in Information Technology at Findhelp Information Services (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose TrueNAS Pros: TrueNAS: Incentivized Helpful? Jorge Arturo Asesor de tecnología de la información in Customer Service at Sistemas Contino (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose TrueNAS the features installed on the other providers solutions, TrueNAS allow just install only the featured do you need and not others you don't like or you don't need. The isolate runtime space give for plugins jail make TrueNAS a really modular NAS solution over the other … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Cox IT Support Specialist in Information Technology at GTG Peterbilt (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 201-500 employees) Chose TrueNAS Older model Diskstations don't have this issue but after a certain point, Diskstations will only operate without errors if you use Diskstations overpriced disks in the bays. Incentivized Helpful? Dejan Tunjic Mr. in Information Technology at Avant IT (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose TrueNAS Synology and QNAP both felt to basic after trying TrueNAS, while NetApp and Fujitsu where both expensive and I wasn't convinced we would A utilize or need all the features and furthermore all the things we where going to use seemed to be something that TrueNAS simply did better. Incentivized Helpful? Dustin Sallings in Engineering at spy internetworking (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose TrueNAS Having a better, trusted filesystem to build upon makes a huge difference. I want to know that if something I've written is read, it was the thing I wrote. And if it can't be read, I want to know that soon and know how to repair it. Incentivized Helpful? Robert Mizen IT & Networking Professor in Professional Services at Polhemsskolan (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose TrueNAS I like all three for different reasons. But TrueNAS fits the FOSS criteria perfectly, obviously. QNAP and Synology operate differently and fit different clients and/or different builds, and have a corporate entity supporting them. We have all 3, and TrueNAS likes friends. I … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Anderson System Administrator in Information Technology at Lee's Sheet Metal (Construction, 51-200 employees) Chose TrueNAS The support with TrueNAS is where it really shines. You can get support that if you purchase hard drives from them, they send replacements as soon as one fails. Automatically. If you have nodes in your server they will do the same. They also do advanced replacement, you … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Broxterman Worship Pastor \| Global Technical Director in Information Technology at Liberty Church Inc (Non-profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees) Chose TrueNAS Our TrueNAS server came with much more performance for the price, and a great community for support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TrueNAS TrueNAS lacks some of the polish of these systems, but the cost to build a system much more powerful (CPU, RAM, network interfaces) than a Synology or QNAP appliance is remarkably lower. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TrueNAS Synology - very user friendly setup and admin - extremely easy to manage storage sharing - slower iSCSI protocol TrueNAS - stepper learning curve for setup and admin - much more complex and error prune file sharing - more capable HW (CPU speed, 10gbe) - storage protocols are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TrueNAS We purchased StoreVirtual appliances 6 months before they announced end of life - we were unable to expand our volumes due to product availability. We used this opportunity to look at different vendors since we needed to configure a new product anyway. Not only did TrueNAS … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	DiskStation	TrueNAS
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (26 ratings)	9.6 (38 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.3 (5 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (7 ratings)	7.3 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)