Best Solution for personal NAS Needs (Backups & Streaming)

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
O

OR18olee

Commendable
Dec 20, 2016
1
0
1,510
Hello!

I'm looking at solutions for my home network for two problems that we are currently having.

We have about 12 tb's of storage on various external drives and files on various windows PC's and macs that we want to backup in a centralised location. For this we have been looking at various nas's.

Large amount of the data on the current external drives are movies and tv series which we want to watch on some tv's at home. Both tv's are LG smart tv's with the newest apple tv's as well.

Is there any way of having a NAS (or something similar) which can be used for both backing up data (with RAID probably) AND for home streaming (with plex, or whatever is easiest).

Thanks in advance!
 
Solution
greens
All network attached storage solutions are capable streaming.

Given the sheer volume of data, and your desire to have it stream, i'd like to suggest not getting a special purpose NAS.

Instead I would suggest you build a low power PC, and call it a "server". This would give you a GUI you are familiar with, compatibility throughout all your devices, allows remote access and a wealth of other features you won't even know you'll use until you have the option.

A NAS can do one thing and one thing only, store. A server can act as a seedbox for torrents, communicate with your NVR and security, all kinds of cool stuff!
Sort by date Sort by votes
greens

greens

Splendid
Jan 27, 2012
3,773
7
26,965
All network attached storage solutions are capable streaming.

Given the sheer volume of data, and your desire to have it stream, i'd like to suggest not getting a special purpose NAS.

Instead I would suggest you build a low power PC, and call it a "server". This would give you a GUI you are familiar with, compatibility throughout all your devices, allows remote access and a wealth of other features you won't even know you'll use until you have the option.

A NAS can do one thing and one thing only, store. A server can act as a seedbox for torrents, communicate with your NVR and security, all kinds of cool stuff!
 
Upvote 1 Downvote
Solution
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,486
17,932
184,590
Instead I would suggest you build a low power PC, and call it a "server". This would give you a GUI you are familiar with, compatibility throughout all your devices, allows remote access and a wealth of other features you won't even know you'll use until you have the option.
Click to expand...

This is exactly what I do.
A regular PC with a bunch of drives. Currently a Pentium G840, 4GB RAM, Win 10 Pro, ~20TB of drive space.

Central storage place for files and backups, HTPC to the main TV.
Controlled via TeamViewer or RDC, from my main PC or the Asus Transformer tablet.

Much more flexible than a basic NAS box.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom