Synology C2 vs QNAP myQNAPcloud Storage Comparison

[@scampilover00]

Would be great if there WAS the freedom to use each other's backup platforms, like they allow back blaze. (Especially if you have both brands - for ransomware prevention)

[@PatrickDKing]

Man, cloud storage is expensive and lucrative. Kind of motivates me to get off me bum and learn how to build a storage center.

[@InspectorGadget2014]

Thanks for the clarifications & show-n-tell. The costs for cloud-storage can be staggering and, to me, more reasons to take that money (savings) and implement yet another NAS if I need more storage. Plus UPS and some kind of remote access security (there are many possibilities & solutions) should I need remote access to my (local) NAS remotely. BTW, it is possible with both brands to hook-up with almost any cloud-provider and use that storage too.

[@tombouie]

Thks & off-topic but important trade-off question; ??Is BTRFS data-scrubbing on a regular-basis a pragmatic/cheap replacement for expensive ECCRAM??

[@GrishTech]

The upload and download test should have been done separately and timed as such for comparison. There are too many variables such as your router prioritizing traffic, or just the way TCP deals with congestion.

[@iblackfeathers]

what both of these need is a custom option to pick a cloud service not on their lists. there are other less popular cloud services out there.

[@whya2ndaccount]

Can the user select which Data Centre is used? I have clients who have detailed requirements in terms of privacy and this can vary by legal jurisdiction (e.g. Using Synology, Frankfurt in the EU may have better privacy coverage than say Taiwan).

[@DaystromDataConcepts]

With regards upload speeds, I'm guessing the Synology is using Hyper Backup to do this. I use C2 Storage and have a nightly Hyper Backup job to it. However, I've noted that Hyper Backup itself is rather slow and I suspect much of the poor Synology upload results are not down to Data centre location and more as a result of the inherently slow Hyper Backup performance. As an example of this, my NAS is directly connected to my 920 Megabit Internet service that offers the same speeds for both down and uploads, a rare thing. When monitoring a C2 Storage backup, the average upload speed was no more than 10 Megabytes per second, or around 80 Megabits on a 900+ Megabit connection. Whatever Hyper Backup is doing, it really hammers performance during backup. --

[@CurvedSlightly]

2L;DW