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If you have purchased NAS devices within the last two years, what is your primary job?

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If you have purchased NAS devices within the last two years, what is your primary job?

Total: 318 votes (3 blank votes)

  • File and print server sharing
  • 16 %
  • Virtualization
  • 4 %
  • Back up and Disaster Recovery Protection
  • 26 %
  • Surveillance
  • 4 %
  • Multimedia Server and Storage
  • 31 %
  • High Def Video
  • 9 %
  • Other_____
  • 15 %
May 12, 2014 10:18:03 AM

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More about : purchased nas devices years primary job

a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 10:16:36 AM

Voted. Presuming the poll was suppose to ask what the NAS's device's primary job is, not what our primary job is, yes?
a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 10:20:41 AM

Hopefully lol I use mine for daily backups of mine and my wife's computer, as both hold our business and personal stuff.
May 22, 2014 10:31:12 AM

Voted.

I agree that I think that was what the poll wanted to ask.

I use mine for backing up my pictures and files.
May 22, 2014 10:36:31 AM

Voted.
May 22, 2014 10:41:27 AM

Voted, although I left it blank since I was presuming they're looking for IT professionals to target for spam ;) 
May 22, 2014 10:41:28 AM

Voted!! These definitely come in handy for storing everything. I just wish Laptops started coming with eSATA ports with port multiplying, especially the higher end engineering laptops.
May 22, 2014 10:41:55 AM

Voted
May 22, 2014 10:43:31 AM

Voted - just completed the installation two weeks ago.
May 22, 2014 10:45:10 AM

Voted!
May 22, 2014 10:58:37 AM

Voted !
May 22, 2014 11:00:22 AM

voted for multimedia

Nothing beats having a good NAS for video production. For longer video projects, different scenes can export to uncompressed formats on the NAS (allowing multiple computers to work on a complex render lengthy video), those parts can then be combined and exported to the final format)

There is almost no performance impact if the NAS can maintain a decent throughput and IOPS.
May 22, 2014 11:02:13 AM

Backups make the world less complicated.
May 22, 2014 11:04:23 AM

Voted, storing media is a must.
May 22, 2014 11:06:53 AM

Voted !
a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 11:26:11 AM

I voted Multimedia Server and Storage
May 22, 2014 11:28:33 AM

I use mine as a file server and multimedia server about equally. And yes, I voted.
May 22, 2014 11:34:49 AM

Voted!
May 22, 2014 11:36:31 AM

Voted, Media storage for network streaming.
May 22, 2014 11:43:54 AM

Voted - Other:

Save 4K footage as EXRs, or all the rendered frames from a 3D application (mainly Maya). 1 minute of renders can take up to 500 GBs. NAS is a saviour.
May 22, 2014 11:56:13 AM

Voted
May 22, 2014 11:57:16 AM

Voted for backup and disaster recovery.
May 22, 2014 12:28:14 PM

Voted - Multimedia Server and Storage
May 22, 2014 12:30:56 PM

I use my NAS for file backup, primarily documents and photos from my home PC's.
May 22, 2014 12:34:35 PM

Voted.
May 22, 2014 12:45:17 PM

Voted
May 22, 2014 1:01:31 PM

Voted - Multimedia Server and Storage
May 22, 2014 1:19:22 PM

My primary job is IT Analyst, however my personal home NAS' primary job is to be a media server.
May 22, 2014 1:20:41 PM

Voted, other, I don't have a NAS
a c 113 G Storage
May 22, 2014 1:28:36 PM

Voted
a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 1:37:03 PM

Voted
May 22, 2014 1:42:05 PM

Voted
May 22, 2014 1:57:35 PM

Voted
a c 162 G Storage
May 22, 2014 1:57:59 PM

Media Storage :) 
May 22, 2014 2:01:00 PM

Voted.
a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 2:16:40 PM

Voted!

It's almost funny... my NAS started out as a backup for my bi-annual Windows reinstall, but half a year later it was acting as a file server in my university's residence hall for a small group of friends. Don't tell 'em, though... they don't like us using up their bandwidth for this sort of thing.

:) 

-Matt
May 22, 2014 2:42:18 PM

Mainly for file sharing
May 22, 2014 2:42:33 PM

voted
May 22, 2014 3:32:11 PM

Been building computers since 1984
May 22, 2014 3:42:19 PM

Voted.
May 22, 2014 4:06:41 PM

Voted!
May 22, 2014 4:16:42 PM

voted
May 22, 2014 4:31:05 PM

Voted.
May 22, 2014 4:32:40 PM

Voted. My NAS comes in handy for my network AIO printer to digitally store incoming faxes, among numerous other things like file sharing.
May 22, 2014 4:43:46 PM

Voted
May 22, 2014 4:46:35 PM

Done. NAS for backup
May 22, 2014 4:47:57 PM

Voted
May 22, 2014 4:53:57 PM

Other
a b G Storage
May 22, 2014 4:59:13 PM

Voted on this poll. Hopefully I win the Seagate Backup drive.
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