2-bay NAS recommendations?

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Looking for your suggestions on this.

I need to put some storage on the network, for backups and to get my music collection for my Sonos setup off main rig. I've been looking at the AS-202TE and from research seems a great choice for a reasonable price point. 3TB would probably do storage wise so 2 WD Reds would have that covered (in RAID-1). I like the connectivity options for media playback as well.

Anyone got any experience with this NAS in particular, or suggest an alternative? I'm running GbE throughout the house and budget is about ~£350 (including drives).
 
Synology all day long, I've got a ds106j still running strong (touch wood) with a single pata drive from about 10 years ago :)

So as above as it's nothing strenuous the ds216j should be fine unless you want movies and transcoding.

I will also put out there the idea of a HP microserver, especially if on cashback offer, yeah I know it's four bay but it would allow easier expansion if needed, and then run xpenology (synology os port) on it.
Thread about it here
 
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lsg1r said:
Synology all day long, I've got a ds106j still running strong (touch wood) with a single pata drive from about 10 years ago :)

So as above as it's nothing strenuous the ds216j should be fine unless you want movies and transcoding.

I will also put out there the idea of a HP microserver, especially if on cashback offer, yeah I know it's four bay but it would allow easier expansion if needed, and then run xpenology (synology os port) on it.
Thread about it here
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Thanks for that, hadn't considered a Microserver.

Gives me a bit to think about, thanks both
 
For something you can just setup and go and it'll just sit there doing its job indefinitely then you'll be hard pressed to beat the Synology or QNAP NAS for home or small business environments. I've dabbled with a lot of options and never found anything else to combine the reliability and comprehensive feature set in a relatively easy to use package outside of very expensive enterprise level stuff.
 
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