NAS setup

[Marshstyles]

Hi, I'm looking to get a NAS purely for watching films and TV series downstairs in the living room and across my home network.

At the moment everything is stored on my PC which is a bit of a ball ache if someone wants to watch something I'm gaming. I have been getting around it by just putting the files on a USB stick but I want a more convenient solution.

The Synology DiskStation DS216j Clicky has caught my attention.

My question is can I run it with 1 hard drive for the time being. Then when I start using it (if ever) to store/backup things that are more personal to me and buy a second hard drive to run in RAID 1? And will the existing drive have to be formatted to set up RAID 1?

Thanks in advance

 

[Marshstyles]

You won't need to format the existing drive, when I added one to the configuration it went in fine.

thanks

When you say NAS, do you also want it to be the media player hooked up to the TV?

Yes, in the spec it says it can do this.

As a DLNA Certified® DMS (Digital Media Server), DS216j can serve as your primary media server, with the capability to host digital multimedia content for local or remote playback.