Hi - I'm now working (at home) from my 250Gb MacBook Pro (2013), and sorely miss the multiple HDs on my old Mac Pro. Trying to hang USB HDs from my laptop is getting rather frustrating, so I'm looking at getting a decent NAS – attached to my BT fibre router.
Ideally it would act as a Time Machine backup as well as accessible storage – and great if it can support my two children for automatic backups of their machines (one has a MacBook, the other a PC). I'd like a RAID 1 setup, with at least 2 x 3Tb of HD storage. Doesn't have to be madly fast - I'm not going use it as a video server, just music for my Sonos system. But would need to be able to access it online. (I do have a 2Gb Time Capsule from my old house, but it's not large enough for all my stuff now – but it could be used purely as a Time Machine backup for myself and my daughter. Can't help feeling it would be better to sell it to fund a decent NAS.)
What's my best bet? Synology? WD Cloud (the latest ones)? I'd rather not have to spend ages configuring it, and don't think I need any enterprise features. Thanks very much for any suggestions - need to be available in the UK...
Ideally it would act as a Time Machine backup as well as accessible storage – and great if it can support my two children for automatic backups of their machines (one has a MacBook, the other a PC). I'd like a RAID 1 setup, with at least 2 x 3Tb of HD storage. Doesn't have to be madly fast - I'm not going use it as a video server, just music for my Sonos system. But would need to be able to access it online. (I do have a 2Gb Time Capsule from my old house, but it's not large enough for all my stuff now – but it could be used purely as a Time Machine backup for myself and my daughter. Can't help feeling it would be better to sell it to fund a decent NAS.)
What's my best bet? Synology? WD Cloud (the latest ones)? I'd rather not have to spend ages configuring it, and don't think I need any enterprise features. Thanks very much for any suggestions - need to be available in the UK...
NAS means network attached storage and is being connected to a network. Once added as a network drive, the new drive will appear in your drive list on your PC or Mac. If you want to connect your NAS directly, you can do it. Set up manual IP on your PC and NAS with a one in the same IP range. Than use Synology finder app or type IP in the. 4 Bay NAS questions on Mac / PC interfacing I had a 2-Bay QNAP 219P II and (real long story short) had a hardware issue and is not even serviceable. I'm looking for recommendations to replace it now with a Synology 4-bay of some kind. The best NAS drive for most people. CPU: Alpine AL-324 quad-core 1.7GHz.
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