

But that old NAS could be the backup you have been waiting for. Why not set the device up and running as a network backup in your home or offsite? Everyone knows that RAID is not a backup, but merely a means to protect your data from hardware failure.

Don’t think that the old NAS is now useless, throwing your first NAS away would be such a waste. You might have been using one and now decided to change because the previous older NAS server did not fulfill your expectations, or perhaps it has lived long outside your warranty and you are ready to upgrade. There may be a number of different reasons how you could end up having two such different NAS systems like QNAP and Synology. 18.2 Related How to Synchronise your Synology and QNAP NAS
