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  1. I'm trying to compare these two NAS's. The Synology is almost a no-brainer as it receives great reviews/compatibility here. The question is; would the QNAP be an equal choice, or even better? Or would the best choice be a more powerful Synology? (The NAS will serve the Auralic Aires that has just arrived). Capacity is not all that important (yes, I know that will come back to haunt me, but I will only store a couple Terabytes at most, as it will be dedicated to music and I don't have that much music compared to others I've read about on this forum...with SSDs and HD space cheap as dirt, I'm not worried about space/cost). I'm also not concerned about building a redundant RAID server, as this will not run 24/7 and be only switched on before I play music. At best, I will RAID 0 for performance if needed; though I doubt that makes a difference, since that is rarely the bottleneck in these types of servers. 1) Will I get better sound with a more powerful NAS (I may, at sometime, stream multichannel DSD) or from the fan-less NAS? 2) Will SSD's improve the sound in the NAS compared to the 'standard' WD Red? 3) The attraction to the QNAP is that it is fan-less...and I'm from the school of thought where "everything matters". Hence a NAS running fan-less, with LPS and perhaps a couple SSDs....or is simply getting more powerful processing NAS more important/necessary? The rest of the system is reasonably high end (Empirical Audio Overdrive SE DAC, BAT VK-75SE, JM Mini-Utopia/Rel. Stax SR009. I do have my opinion on all of this...in that this stuff is so far from the Auralic (which has dual Femto's, along with Superclock clock in Empirical OD), that the NAS, as long as it is fast enough, should make little difference, perhaps other than using a decent Ethernet cable and LPS. I'd like someone who's perhaps gone through some of this to prove me wrong, so that I may pay attention to what matters most! Please chime in with your thoughts.
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