Matt_C
Distinguished Member
For a good while now I've had a Buffalo 2TB (dual disk) LinkStation. It's crapped out on me before (failed drives, one after the other, which I had RMA'd with new Fujitsu drives), but I think it's time to upgrade. I've never been truly happy with it, and I'm outgrowing the 2TB storage.
So I'm thinking of going probably 4TB, mainly because I want to have a USB external drive back up (currently I have a WD MyBook 2TB external drive that I use with CCC to back up the NAS), so I'll have to get a 4TB external drive to do the same.
So what I'm looking for is a fairly basic NAS - all I use it for is storing and serving music and video to my MacBook (iTunes) and Apple TV (XBMC/Kodi). I don't need it to be a print server, email server, web server (although www access would be useful - something that has never worked on my Buffalo system). I don't have any smart TV's, and I don't need to stream to tablets/phones etc. I am tempted by there ATV4 and Plex, but need to look into it more before I commit.
So what is good in the basic, non-fancy, NAS world? I'm not looking for the cheapest, but at the same time I'm not looking to pay business grade money either.
So I'm thinking of going probably 4TB, mainly because I want to have a USB external drive back up (currently I have a WD MyBook 2TB external drive that I use with CCC to back up the NAS), so I'll have to get a 4TB external drive to do the same.
So what I'm looking for is a fairly basic NAS - all I use it for is storing and serving music and video to my MacBook (iTunes) and Apple TV (XBMC/Kodi). I don't need it to be a print server, email server, web server (although www access would be useful - something that has never worked on my Buffalo system). I don't have any smart TV's, and I don't need to stream to tablets/phones etc. I am tempted by there ATV4 and Plex, but need to look into it more before I commit.
So what is good in the basic, non-fancy, NAS world? I'm not looking for the cheapest, but at the same time I'm not looking to pay business grade money either.