What NAS?

Jano

Jano

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Sorry for the slightly broad subject, but I've been a bit bamboozled by these. I recently went into my local store of cataclysmic nuclear explosion technology, and was totally shocked when they replied to my question about NAS'. The guy was going on about expandable Ram and processor speeds and things I had no idea were even involved in NASiness.

What I want is to be able to have storage available that can be mirrored to hopefully prevent any potential loss, this is mainly for the huge store of photo's we have - so I've been looking for Raid 1.

After that, I want to be able to stream music and movies to any of the 5 pc's in the house, possibly expanding in the future to a media centre for each tv. I have a rather large collection of DVD's I want to turn into MKV's which would then also be placed on the NAS.

My initial ponderings lead me to the Synology DiskStation DS211J, and I was going to plonk in 2 Samsung F4 2TB's in Raid 1, and I can't see any reason why this wont do what I want? Possibly even overkill?

Do I need to worry about things like the ram inside the box, is it just a case of plugging in the HD's and away you go?
 
Not massively worried about the backups, as it seems to have a usb port for an external hdd, which means I can also backup the backup? :P

While I have about 100gb of music at the mo, I think I'd be hard pushed to fill the rest up with movies and photo's, so should be good to go for a while on storage.
 
I did look at the D-Link ones, but I just had a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that theres a reason it a lot cheaper than the Synology's. This would be (at least at the moment) just for streaming media over the network, but that it does look like these can do a lot more than that.

Eventually I can see this being used to stream media to three tv's. I've already seen that a PS3 can possibly pick up the media from these? Which would count for one of the tv's, I now have an HTPC hooked up to mine, and theres also the main living room tv which may be integrated into this in the future.
 
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