![]() ![]() It's everything we were promised by home theatre PCs without the fuss of managing TV connections and the dramas of a full-fat operating system. Peace of mind humming away quietly under a desk.īut now the NAS has become the ultimate home hub for music, video and photo storage. At first the magic of owning a NAS was having a significant chunk of storage on my home network for running automatic backups of other PCs. First a ReadyNAS NV+ (bought from a company called Infrant, which is now a part of Netgear) and today a Synology DiskStation. Personally, I've been using home NAS for 10 years. What a NAS was 10 years ago is not what it is today. It didn't do anything particularly useful with those files except share them and do its best to keep them safe from data failure. When it was named, it was nothing more than a dumb box of hard drives used to organise and share files among a wider network of computers. Network Attached Storage is an awfully dull name for an incredibly useful category of products. With plenty of apps and a friendly interface, the modern NAS is an ideal household media hub. ![]()
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