Seagate vs Synology NAS

[Howard54]

I have multiple PCs and two Macs on my home network and I am looking for an efficient backup solution to replace my current scheme of backing each computer up on individual hard drives. I think NAS might be the answer.

I was looking at the Seagate NAS110, but then I began reading on this forum about Synology and other competitive NAS products.

I have a few newbie questions:

Is Synology a better choice from a software and hardware perspective than Seagate?
Does the Synology product require special hard drives or will any SATA drive work with the product?
Can either product backup/restore to both PCs and Macs on the same network or do the different file systems on the clients (NTFS and Mac OS Extended Journaled) not permit this?

I would appreciate any comments/experiences from users of these products in a mixed PC/Mac environment.

Thanks.

 

[Dertyb]

Can either product backup/restore to both PCs and Macs on the same network or do the different file systems on the clients (NTFS and Mac OS Extended Journaled) not permit this?

The NAS will have its own file system; you're not accessing the disk directly so no need to worry about NTFS, HFS etc.