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- 26 Jan 2009
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Hi all
As the title says, I'm looking for a NAS for my home, essentially so we can store all the media, pics, documents etc in one place and access it within the network and from outside the network if possible! As time moves on, I am becoming more and more of a noob when it comes to this stuff, my limit is building/setting up PCs, so I'm looking for as close to a plug and play devise as poss.
In terms of backing up the NAS, I probably only really value the documents and family pictures, in the grand scheme of things, I'd not loose much sleep if I lost all my music in a fire. So my intention is to back up onto a portable 1TB HDD which I already own, and store off site.
I thought the WD Mycloud looked pretty good and included an iTunes thing, which my wife would probably fine useful, similarly the Seagate version looks to do a similar job, both around the £130 mark
So my question is this: am I missing anything, should I be looking at one of the Synology devices because of functionality/reliability/speed/apps etc, they seems to be quite popular amongst many of the people here which says something.... Currently we'll need the following to access it: Windows tablet, PC, Windows phone, iphone, android tablet, all with need varied access levels
Your advice is greatly appreciated!
Tom
As the title says, I'm looking for a NAS for my home, essentially so we can store all the media, pics, documents etc in one place and access it within the network and from outside the network if possible! As time moves on, I am becoming more and more of a noob when it comes to this stuff, my limit is building/setting up PCs, so I'm looking for as close to a plug and play devise as poss.
In terms of backing up the NAS, I probably only really value the documents and family pictures, in the grand scheme of things, I'd not loose much sleep if I lost all my music in a fire. So my intention is to back up onto a portable 1TB HDD which I already own, and store off site.
I thought the WD Mycloud looked pretty good and included an iTunes thing, which my wife would probably fine useful, similarly the Seagate version looks to do a similar job, both around the £130 mark
So my question is this: am I missing anything, should I be looking at one of the Synology devices because of functionality/reliability/speed/apps etc, they seems to be quite popular amongst many of the people here which says something.... Currently we'll need the following to access it: Windows tablet, PC, Windows phone, iphone, android tablet, all with need varied access levels
Your advice is greatly appreciated!
Tom
