Well, the recently released QNAP 251/451A certainly looks like it may be the ideal home entertainment 4k NAS without breaking the budget: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/model.php?II=240&event=2
Review here (nice and detailed): http://www.thestreamingblog.com/qnap-ts-451a-nas-review/
Hardware is up to scratch (dual core Celeron N3060) for what it needs to do around the house (providing you're not transcoding much), and it has USB direct access which means it plugs into your PC and can be viewed like an external storage drive which is very handy if your network goes down or you want to take it away with you and share things with family etc. The bundled remote is also always nice. QTS seems to have had some really good upgrades over the last generation which makes it seem very slick
I know Synology are also awesome with their software but lets face it they lag behind in hardware, and they currently have nothing that competes with this NAS at this price point.
The only downside is the ghastly colour... I wish they made a black version as it would stick out like a sore thumb to my AVR!
Thoughts?
Review here (nice and detailed): http://www.thestreamingblog.com/qnap-ts-451a-nas-review/
Kodi is my go to hub for media playback and streaming on my Nvidia Shield TV and whilst connected to the TS-451A I found zero issues of latency and I experience no instances of buffering when streaming my content from the NAS to the media player. I used the NAS to stream 720p, 1080p and 4k videos from the NAS and the NAS handles it all without breaking a sweat.
Hardware is up to scratch (dual core Celeron N3060) for what it needs to do around the house (providing you're not transcoding much), and it has USB direct access which means it plugs into your PC and can be viewed like an external storage drive which is very handy if your network goes down or you want to take it away with you and share things with family etc. The bundled remote is also always nice. QTS seems to have had some really good upgrades over the last generation which makes it seem very slick
I know Synology are also awesome with their software but lets face it they lag behind in hardware, and they currently have nothing that competes with this NAS at this price point.
The only downside is the ghastly colour... I wish they made a black version as it would stick out like a sore thumb to my AVR!
Thoughts?
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