01-21-2016, 10:07 AM
BLINGMW Wrote:Anyone have a QNAP NAS or other that they would recommend? There's more than 10 small models to choose from and I don't understand the capability differences. My #1 need is something that can easily, wired and wirelessly, receive family pictures and video from Android, iPhone, camera, allow for admin, catalog and display on PC or chromebook, and automate the backups to another USB device. #2 would be playing music and video files. Can they pull in Pandora too? Right now an 8yr old mac mini is doing all these things and be remotely admin'd, but it's far from ideal. I obviously have some user manuals to read, but maybe you can help narrow the search.
Many moons ago I had very very very good luck with Buffalo's Terastation line. It was easy to use and manage, had full selection of RAID options, and seemed to be trouble free, for reasonable money.
Don't know if they're any good now, though.
However, at this point I can't imagine the cheapest, best way isn't to buy a real live hardware raid controller, a pile of disks, and then build the most efficient *nix machine you can around it.
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