** The Benefits of NAS - Network Attached Storage **

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With the importance of digital media in the home becoming prominent, a central point for data is crucial for most homes.

This is where Network Attached Storage comes in. A NAS links to any router and is accessible anywhere on your home network. The reason that a NAS is so important is that it is a multiple utility device.

Our two main brands of NAS are QNAP and Synology. Both of these brands have incredible feature-sets with user friendly control interfaces that any computer user with even basic experience will be able to navigate easily.
Both of these brands offer a massive range of NAS that suits large application ranges.

Home and Small Office
Home and Business
Small and Large Business

What Can a NAS do for You

Each of our NAS products has many features, most have so many features that it would be impossible to list them all.
That's why each NAS product on our website has a useful PDF guide that will explain the entire feature set of each product.
look out for the button that looks like this on each item listing:

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Storage - NAS offers advanced RAID and single disc configurations. Many units offer a hot-swap design where a failed drive can be replaced by hot swapping without turning off the server. Higher end models provide advanced RAID management for business use.

Family & Business Backup Solution - With support for multiple user accounts, every QNAP and Synology NAS product allows everyone on your network to have their own section of storage to access. Passwords for each account keep private data private. Ideal for offices or even the as a backup solution for the kids homework.

Web File Manager - access and manage your files via a web interface from anywhere on the network, even wirelessly. Or map the NAS as a network drive on your PC for immediate access.

Archiving and Sharing - All NAS products work like an external storage drive but with the benefit of network capabilities. There is literally endless possibilities for data storage.

Mobile Interface - Got a Smart-phone? QNAP and Synology have a dedicated app each to access your data and control your NAS via your phone. You can also set some NAS models up so that you can access your data and stream media from anywhere in the world.

With the majority of NAS products using a web interface or having a specific app, you can control a NAS from any web enabled mobile device.

Benefits of NAS

A NAS doesn't require a computer to work, the whole point of a NAS is that it is left on all of the time much like your router. Every NAS is designed to be left on all the time and because of this, they all feature low power consumption figures.

Having a NAS on 24/7 sounds bad?
Wrong! A NAS carries on working when you are out of the house or asleep. Schedule tasks such as torrent/newsgroup downloads so that bandwidth is used when you are not busy on-line. QNAP and Synology NAS products can download from the internet on a schedule that you define. No need to leave your high power PC on all day whilst downloading. Some models even let you schedule a download task remotely from anywhere in the world.

Both QNAP and Synology offer an upgradeable operating system that allows applications to be added to suit the end users needs. Like many of today's Smart-phones, applications are available to improve the platform. You can download additional programs for most NAS products that allow the improvement of features to suit your needs.

Upgradeable
Each NAS has a set number of drive bays and many accept standard 3.5" hard drives.
Take a look at our 1TB-1.5TB and 2TB + Storage ranges.
we offer everything you need to populate your NAS with quality storage drives.
The Beauty of a NAS is that you could buy a 4 Bay device for example such as the excellent QNAP Turbo NAS TS-419P+ and put a 2TB HDD in it to start with, then when that starts filling up, add another and so on.

For a household with even one computer system, a NAS can provide massive benefits.
With a massive range at every price point, Overclockers UK offers a great range of NAS products for everyone.

Take a look at our NAS Range HERE


Here are some of our Hottest products:





Synology Diskstation DS211J 2-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £161.98 inc VAT

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Synology DiskStation DS211j is designed to provide a cost-effective file storage and backup solution with RAID protection for your home environments. The operating system, Synology DiskStation Manager, delivers rich features for multimedia enjoyments, worry-free backup, Internet sharing, and energy-saving options.Download Station functions as a 24x7 BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP, eMule, and NZB download center without a PC. The eMule download engine allows search-n-download capability with a web-browser without installing additional desktop applications.
Audio Station supports music, Internet radio stations, and iPod playback with the optional speakers. An optional direction-free Synology Remote allows you to freely enjoy your music. Streaming mode allows your music to be shared with multiple users over the Intranet or Internet.
DLNA/UPnP Compliant Media Sever allows you to stream multimedia files with an UPnP Digital Media Adapter (DMA) to a stereo system or a TV-set. Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox360 are also supported.
iTunes® Server is an easy way to share music with other iTunes clients over the network. Password protection prevents unauthorized sharing.
Back Up Your Precious Data
DiskStation Manager offers comprehensive solutions for you to back up data stored on DiskStation or your desktop computer to the DiskStation.
Server backup includes two alternatives: Network Backup and Local Backup. Both allow you to back up data in the shared folders and databases. Incremental backup option and flexible schedules are available. All can be easily configured with a step-by-step wizard.
Desktop backup provides your Windows PC with Synology Data Replicator for backing up desktop data, Outlook, and Outlook Express emails to your DiskStation by choosing one of the three backup modes: Immediate, Sync, and Scheduled backup, while Mac OS X users can use Apple Time Machine backup application to back up their critical data to DiskStation.
USBCopy allows you to quickly back up your data from an USB storage device such as an USB flash or USB card reader to your DiskStation with just one single touch on the front-panel copy button.
Enrich Your Web Presence
Photo Station simplifies photo, video, and blog sharing over the Internet. The flexibility of photo theme customization, blog layout arrangement, visitor’s privilege setting, RSS feed, and the dazzling 3-dimentional photo browsing with Cooliris make Photo Station your state-of-the-art lifestyle sharing center on the Internet.
Web Station with built-in PHP+MySQL allows you to publish your own websites or install numerous popular open source programs.
Access With Your Mobile Device
The iPhone and Android App, DS audio, allows you to stream music stored on your DiskStation with your mobile devices where Internet access is available, while DS photo+ allows browsing and uploading photos and videos stored on DiskStation from your mobile devices.
Synology Disk Station is designed and developed perpetually with the concept of energy saving. Compared with average PC counterparts, Synology Disk Station consumes a relatively low amount of power and has the HDDs hibernate when not in use. This not only helps to save energy but also extends the lifespan of the hard disk.
Synology Disk Station truly earns the title of "green product" because of the unique Scheduled Power On/Off feature, and the smart fan design effectively cools down the system with minimum power consumption, yet keeps the system quiet on operation.
Finally, all Synology products are produced with RoHS compliant parts and packed with recyclable packing materials. Synology recognizes its responsibility as a global citizen and is continually working to reduce the environmental impact of the products we create.

- CPU Frequency: 1.2GHz
- Hardware Encryption Engine
- Memory: DDR2 128MB
- Internal HDD1: 3.5" X2 or 2.5" SATA(II) X2
- Max Internal Capacity: 6TB (2x 3TB hard drives)9
- External HDD Interface: USB 2.0 port X3
- Size (H x W x D): 161mm X 88mm X 218mm
- Weight: 0.98kg
- LAN: Gigabit x 1
- Wireless Support
- Fan: 1 x 70mm

Only £161.98 inc VAT.

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QNAP Turbo NAS TS-210 2-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £154.98 inc VAT

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More and more people are turning to network attached storage (NAS) as an alternative for PC-based servers to store their digital contents due to native NAS advantages such as low power consumption, small size, and easy installation/setup. The QNAP TS-210 Turbo NAS is the most economic two-drive storage solution for Prosumers and SOHO users who want a NAS with compelling features, solid performance, low power consumption and high reliability.

ncorporating a Marvell 800 MHz CPU and 256MB DDRII RAM, the power consumption of the TS-210 Turbo NAS in operation is only 14W which is much less than that of a PC. The TS-210 offers features more often found in much higher end NAS servers, including built-in iSCSI target service, policy-based unauthorized IP blocking, SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), remote replication, a Gigabit LAN port, and 3 USB ports (the front USB port includes an auto-copy feature).

The TS-210 Turbo NAS is not only an ideal storage server but also a multimedia station to enhance your home entertainment experience. The built-in UPnP media server (with TwonkyMedia enabled) of the Turbo NAS supports gaming consoles for media playing and the NAS works well with NFS-supported High-Definition (HD) digital media players. Also, the TS-210’s AJAX-based NAS management software utilizes a web interface that allows intuitive management of all the Turbo NAS features.

The NAS supports PC-less BitTorrent, FTP, and HTTP download. TCP/ UDP, encrypted BT download function, and DHT (Distributed Hash Tables) are also supported.
- iTunes Server
You can stream the mp3 music on the NAS to the computers on the home network and listen to the music by iTunes over wired or wireless network connection.
- Surveillance Station
The Surveillance Station enables you to configure multiple IP-based security cameras simultaneously for real-time monitoring, recording, and playback.

- Complete Backup Solution

- QNAP Backup Software - NetBak Replicator
The backup software, NetBak Replicator, is provided for the NAS users to perform real-time synchronization or schedule backup from multiple PCs to the NAS.

- 3rd Party Backup Software Ready
The NAS works well with other backup software, e.g. Acronis True Image, CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup, EMC Retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec, and LaCie Silverkeeper.

- Encrypted Remote Replication
The data on the NAS can be backed up to or from another Turbo NAS over the network securely.

- One Touch USB Auto Copy
The one touch button can be configured to trigger instant data backup from the external USB device to the NAS or the other way round (applies to the USB device connected to the front USB port of the NAS only).

Cross-platform Data Sharing and Storage Center

- Sharing Files across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX
The NAS is designed for users to share the files across Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX environment.

- Support Windows AD
The Windows AD feature enables server manager to import user accounts from AD domain to NAS to reduce the time and effort for account setup, and users can use the same set of login name and password.

- Web File Manager
The NAS provides Web File Manager for you to easily download, upload, and manage the files on the server by web browser.

- Ease of User and Share Folder Management
The NAS supports batch creation of users and share folders to save the time and effort of the server manager in account and folder creation. For the security of Windows network environment, server managers can hide or show network share folders.

Only £154.98 inc VAT.

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Synology Diskstation DS211 2-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £219.78 inc VAT

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Synology DiskStation DS211 is an affordable and full-featured 2-bay NAS server designed to increase productivity for business workgroups. Cross platform file sharing, rich office applications, data backup and security are easily achieved in a flexible solution. Running on DiskStation Manager 3.0 (DSM 3.0) operating system, it delivers ease of use and variety of features.
The Synology DS211 delivers an average 104.37 MB/sec reading speed under RAID 1 configuration in a Windows environment, and 53.29 MB/sec writing. The Synology DS211 provides a reliable solution for data sharing with an easy to use interface, and comprehensive office applications, including a complete backup solution making it one of the best values in 2-bay NAS devices available today.
Data protection is an important matter for business of all sizes. Synology DS211 comes with share-level AES 256-bit encryption to aid in the prevention of unauthorized access attempts to the hard drives.
Synology Mail Station add-on provides a one step installation and enables Synology DS211 to be a mail server that supports Outlook-like Web mail, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP.
Synology Web Station with Virtual Host option allows users to host up to 30 websites on one single Synology DS211. The built-in PHP+MySQL provides the ability to create interactive websites without complicated settings.
Synology DS211 supports two USB printers simultaneously as a Print Server, and the Add Printer Wizard simplifies setup process with a wizard.

- CPU: 1.6GHz
- RAM: 256MB
- Internal HDD: 2 x 3.5" or 2 x 2.5" Drive Bays
- External Ports: 3 x USB2.0
- Wireless Support
- FTP Server
- Web Station
- Surveillance Station
- Photo Station
- Download Station
- Audio Station
- iTunes Server
- Print Server
- RAID Support

Only £219.78 inc VAT.

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QNAP Turbo NAS TS-219P+ 2-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £264.98 inc VAT

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All-in-one NAS Server with iSCSI for SMB and SOHO

Key Features
• Superior performance and abundant server applications
• Maximize the enjoyment of your home multimedia centre
• Virtual Disk Drive (VDD) adds flexibility to storage expansion
• Built-in iSCSI Target Service
• Data Access by iPhone and Android Mobile Devices

TS-219P+ is QNAP's new generation two-bay Turbo NAS with iSCSI, especially designed for small business and home users who are looking for a large storage center to store, back up, share thousands of multimedia files or expand the storage capacity. The NAS is equipped with latest powerful 1.6 GHz embedded CPU and 512MB DDRIII memory, supports 2.5" and 3.5" SATA hard drives, and delivers ultra high speed performance yet maintains extremely low power consumption. The powerful dual-drive system can let you build the RAID 1 mirroring for hard disk redundancy.

The TS-219P+ takes the lead in the current small business and home NAS market with the outstanding specifications, hot-swappable hard disk design, great expandability by two eSATA and multiple USB ports, high reliability, and numerous all-in-1 software applications. It is a reliable, powerful yet affordable mini storage server which can be easily deployed for various application environments.


Only £264.98 inc VAT.

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Synology Diskstation DS411+II 4-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £514.98 inc VAT

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The Synology DS411+II is designed for business users who require a reliable storage solution and demand high-performance for file sharing. The Synology DS411+II delivers an average 110.73 MB/sec reading and 105.48MB/sec writing speeds under RAID 5 configuration in a Windows® environment.

- High Performance
- Easy Setup and Management
- Flexible RAID Management
- Complete Backup Solution
- Full-featured Business Application
- Energy Efficient Design
- 110.73 MB/sec Reading 105.48 MB/sec Writing
- Running on Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM)
- Complete Backup Solutions
- Windows ADS and ACL Supported
- Hard Drive Hibernation
- Power-saving with only 60W in Operation


Only £514.98 inc VAT.

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Synology Diskstation DS710+ 2-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £379.99 inc VAT

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Synology® DiskStation DS710+ offers a high-performance, scalable, and full-featured network attached storage solution that meets the needs of small and medium-sized businesses that require an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, and rapidly scale storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. The Synology DS710+ is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.
The Synology DS710+ delivers an average 110+ MB/sec reading speed under RAID 1 configuration in a Windows environment and 93+ MB/sec writing. The hard drives are hot-swappable to ensure continual service uptime should the drives need replacement. Businesses need a strong foundation to face mission-critical tasks so the Synology DS710+ delivers high-performance with high data availability ensuring access when it’s needed.
When the storage capacity of the Synology DS710+ is nearing its limits, it can easily be expanded by the Synology DX510. The Synology DX510 securely connects to the Synology DS710+ via an eSATA cable of specially-designed connectors on both ends to ensure maximum throughput. The Synology DX510 can directly expand the existing storage on the Synology DS710+ to a maximum 14 TB volume.
The Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) automatically builds an optimal RAID volume with data protection based on the hard drives installed, eliminating the need to have hard drives of identical size, while still
offering a manual setup option for advanced users.
Internet file access is simplified by the encrypted FTP server and the web-based file explorer, Synology File Station 2. HTTPS, firewall, and IP auto-block support ensure file sharing over the Internet is protected at a high security level.
The PHP/MySQL Synology Web Station allows hosting up to 30 websites on a Synology DS710+. Synology Surveillance Station offers a centralized interface to safeguard the office environments by deploying IP cameras. The Mail Station add-on turns a Synology DS710+ into a mail server with only few steps of installation. The USB printer sharing capability minimizes businesses’ cost by sharing printing resources throughout the office.

- 110+ MB/sec Reading, 93+ MB/sec Writing
- Quiet Operation with Hidden Fan Design
- Scalable with Synology DX510 to up to 7 Drives
- Power-saving with only 31W in Operation
- Wake on LAN for Remote Wakeup
- Includes Feature-Rich Synology DiskStation Manager 2.2 (DSM 2.2)
- CPU: Intel Atom D410 1.6GHz
- RAM: 1GB DDR
- Internal HDD: 2 x 3.5" or 2 x 2.5"
- File System
- File Sharing
- Surveillance Station
- Photo Station
- File Station
- Audio Station
- Web Station
- Download Station

Only £379.99 inc VAT.

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why not look at the latest addition to our NAS range :)


Synology Diskstation DS2411+ 12-Bay Gigabit Ethernet Network Attached Storage Enclosure @ £1,138.80 inc VAT

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The Ultimate Diskstation

Synology® DiskStation DS2411+ offers a high-performance, scalable, and full-featured network attached storage solution for businesses that requires an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, and rapidly expand storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. The Synology DS2411+ is backed with Synology’s 3-year limited warranty.

Key Features

• Average 165 MB/sec Writing, 195 MB/sec Reading
• Scale up to 72TB with Synology DX1211
• VMware / Citrix / Hyper-V Compliance
• 2 LAN with Failover and Link Aggregation Support
• Fit to Business Environment

Synology DiskStation DS2411+ offers a high-performance, scalable, and full-featured network attached storage solution for businesses that requires an efficient way to centralize data protection, simplify data management, and rapidly expand storage capacity with minimal time spent on setup and management. The Synology DS2411+ is backed with Synology's 3-year limited warranty.

This Item is purchased to order and will be delivered within 48 hours




Only £1,138.80 inc VAT.

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