I've taken the time to go through the related reviews and read through these forums - but something I'm not seeing is a plain and simple recommendation for one or the other.
Here is my goal:
- Take first step toward centralizing my media and essential data (photos, videos, documents)
- Develop a habit for best-practice re: personal backups (for all of my devices)
- Take those lessons learned after a few years time and upgrade to whatever is the borderline-overkill solution for in-home use (4+ bay solution)
Here is what I want:
- Store all data centrally (.mp4, .cbr/.cbz, .epub, .dmg/.apk/.proj)
- For media, DLNA playback on PS4, Xbox One, Mac, iPhone, iPad
- "Thoughtless" playback of above media (so like... transcoding if it's a fresh .mp4 or .avi)
- Stream comics to iPad
- Utilize Time Machine within macOS (two laptops)
Additional Info
This will be in my living room next to my other electronics, connected to the modem-router via ethernet, and accessible via 5GHz 802.11ac
The TS-251+ seems.. newer? ... than the TS-253A. I won't be consuming much 4K but the future capability would be nice.
Question
I realize it seems this question has been asked to death - but I haven't found anything that outlines things like the above and just asks:
which is best overall, and why?
Here is my goal:
- Take first step toward centralizing my media and essential data (photos, videos, documents)
- Develop a habit for best-practice re: personal backups (for all of my devices)
- Take those lessons learned after a few years time and upgrade to whatever is the borderline-overkill solution for in-home use (4+ bay solution)
Here is what I want:
- Store all data centrally (.mp4, .cbr/.cbz, .epub, .dmg/.apk/.proj)
- For media, DLNA playback on PS4, Xbox One, Mac, iPhone, iPad
- "Thoughtless" playback of above media (so like... transcoding if it's a fresh .mp4 or .avi)
- Stream comics to iPad
- Utilize Time Machine within macOS (two laptops)
Additional Info
This will be in my living room next to my other electronics, connected to the modem-router via ethernet, and accessible via 5GHz 802.11ac
The TS-251+ seems.. newer? ... than the TS-253A. I won't be consuming much 4K but the future capability would be nice.
Question
I realize it seems this question has been asked to death - but I haven't found anything that outlines things like the above and just asks:
which is best overall, and why?