Educate me regarding NAS options

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I wish to consolidate our media, files, pictures and documents, to a network based device.
There is a growing amount, and I would expect this amount to increase over the years.
Circa 10TB currently if all is totalled.
The NAS device or equivalent would mainly be a backup and access hub, with everything being stored on another device/computer/tablet as well.

I don't mind updating the system manually, I also don't mind if these things are software capable of maintain copies/duplicates of certain folders on the various PCs and phones.
I'd quite like to be able to access it from the TV in the house to play movies, recordings, photobooks etc.
I plan to situate the device beside our BT home hub and network connect it to the hub.

There is such a variation in pricing of the barebones of these devices.
What would folks recommend, to allow for storage now with future expansion options?
 
peige said:
I used to have loads of external drives on my main pc network shared for all to access in the house and then windows 8 came along and just stopped it working well so I ended up buying a Synology and haven't for a moment looked back.
They just do the job well. Mine handles the shares for all the films I have, music and photos. That and running 3 cctv cameras, torrant, nzbget and cloud backups to google for my most important stuff.

I have the knowledge to get a mini server up and running but when you have had a Synology with a really usable browser based interface, updates that work ether automatically or when you choose you really struggle to want to deal with anything else.
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Which specific model do you use, how many disks in what sort of array and would you recommend your particular unit? or have they updated?
 
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