I invest a new QNAP TS-212P which has RAID 1 support, a faster Marvell 88F6282 at 1.6GHz, and more RAM (512MB) compare to my QNAP TS-112 with Marvell 88F6281 at 1.2GHz and 256MB RAM. I bought two Seagate SV-35 2TB for it.
But things doesn’t goes as I expect, it fails to backup some of my files. I never have the same problem on Buffalo HD-LX2TU3 with ext4.
Linux Client
I use OpenSuSE 13.1 on my ThinkCentre Edge 72z. If you want to back up from different systems, : ” \ / * ? < > | are invalid characters in filenames in Windows NTFS but only / in ext4 and : in OSX according to Invalid Characters in File Names.
Using Network File System (NFS) Service with QNAP TS-112 provides comprehensive information about how to enable NFS on QTS 4.0 device.
I use showmount -e [NAS IP] to check for available shared folders and mount it as a local drive by mount -t nfs [NAS IP]:[Shared Folder] [Local Folder].
FreeFileSync is used to backup files here.
Performance Comparison: NFS and Samba

NFS write speed is not as fast as Samba. But it’s much better than backup to Buffalo HD-LX2TU3 with ext4 on ThinkCentre Edge 72z via USB 2.0.
More Thoughts
A media reports that Marvell: Marvell 88F6282 SoC running at 1.6GHz is not as good as Marvell ARMADA 370 at 1.2GHz on Synology DS213j. I only know ARMADA 370 is better because of dual-issue, out-of-oder, double L1 cache (32K), and FPU from datasheet. See if I may invest on it to proof the different.
Reference
- Buffalo HD-LX2TU3
- FreeFileSync
- Invalid Characters in File Names
- Lenovo: ThinkCentre Edge 72z
- Marvell: ARMADA 370
- Marvell: Marvell 88F6282 SoC
- Marvell: Marvell 88F6281 SoC with Sheeva Technology
- nixCraft: Linux / Unix: Show Shares on NFS Server [ Shared Directories ]
- OpenSuSE: Portal: 13.1
- QNAP TS-112
- QNAP TS-212P
- QNAP: QTS 4.0
- Seagate Surveillance HDD
- Synology: DS-213j
- Synology: What kind of CPU does my NAS have
- T 客邦:Qnap TS-220:最多7顆硬碟的入門款 NAS
- Using Network File System (NFS) Service with QNAP TS-112
- Wiki: ext4
- Wiki: Network File System
- Wiki: NTFS
- Wiki: Samba (software)
- Wiki: Standard RAID levels: RAID 1
- Wiki: USB: USB 2.0