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It's probably something of a value judgement I'm afraid. It somewhat depends on how much you have to spend, what risks you wish to mitigate and whether your prospective purchase has any "other" features over and above you incumbent solution you might desire.
I don't have a NAS (I run a Micro-Server with a full fat Linux OS on it) but plenty of others here know the NAS marketplace and will doubtless chime in with their advice and experiences. I guess I can advance that a modern NAS solutions is more likely to have everything you need integrated into a "turnkey" consumer oriented solution, esp. if you look for one with Plex built in or easily add-able from an App store. (Though Plex is by no means essential and it seems to be well liked here, but plenty, including me, don't use it and stream media just fine.) All you'll (probably) need to do to NAS is add discs, set up RAID (if you want it,) create some shares and you're done. IIRC some NAS's are now bundling things like backup agents that can push copies of your personal data (ie your none media stuff - Word, Excel docs and so forth) out to cloud based backup.
I suggest a way to proceed is to continue as you are doing and think holistically about want you want to achieve (make a list in order of priority if you like) then have a look at the technology that can avail that (and it's cost) - you'll doubtless get plenty of recommendations here. As you are looking around the market place you're bound to see something in "oooh that looks cool, I hadn't thought of that" category and add that to your wish list. However, try to be a bit pragmatic about any "new toys" 'cos if your not careful, you can talk yourself into things (expenditure) you don't really need. (Yes, I need a new car, and a Ferrari looks nice, but do I really have to have a 600hp engine and kick ass stereo? etc.) |
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2-12-2019 04:39:59
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