Hi,
Like many I am looking at buying a media NAS.
It will essentially be used to serve Video/music/picture to my Raspberry Pi so NFS or SMB are must have.
That will be latter replaced by a more powerful HTPC so I start planning the upgrade by consolidating the media…
The NAS will be hooked to an ASUS N56U router that is already doing a good job with a 2T USB HDD attached to it.
Frankly this set up does all basics that I need: it can stream via wifi HD rips to the RPi with no hiccup and a solid rock stability.
I can transfer file from my laptop at about 4.5Mb/s on wifi n 2.4GHz which not too fast though.
But 2T is too small and I am afraid that the USB driver won’t survive long when used 24-7-365.
The NAS will be wired to the router and will be accessed both via wifi and cable.
So here I am choosing a NAS and I would like to have the following features:
• 2 bays, I think I will go for independent HDD as I have 2T and 1T USB drive for Back up really important stuff. I am tempted by WD red 4Tb HDDs
• Able to have NFS and/or SMB shares
• Can easily access through the internet to share stuff with my relatives/mates (FTP I guess)
• Can automatically back up iPhone and Android pictures (other things not critical)
• Easy back up of SD cards for pictures
• Back up one itinerant laptop via cable
The rest is not critical but could be a nice touch
• Torrent download
• Ip cam accessible via internet (iPhone, Android)
I live in China so some things are cheaper some aren’t and some things are available some aren’t…
Given all that I made this short list:
• Qnap TS212P (about 185USD)
• Synology DS213j (about 185USD)
• Asustor AS-202TE (about 215USD)
The last one is about the same price but is atom based and can run XBMC directly seems much more powerful / future proof?
So any advice?
Mickael
Like many I am looking at buying a media NAS.
It will essentially be used to serve Video/music/picture to my Raspberry Pi so NFS or SMB are must have.
That will be latter replaced by a more powerful HTPC so I start planning the upgrade by consolidating the media…
The NAS will be hooked to an ASUS N56U router that is already doing a good job with a 2T USB HDD attached to it.
Frankly this set up does all basics that I need: it can stream via wifi HD rips to the RPi with no hiccup and a solid rock stability.
I can transfer file from my laptop at about 4.5Mb/s on wifi n 2.4GHz which not too fast though.
But 2T is too small and I am afraid that the USB driver won’t survive long when used 24-7-365.
The NAS will be wired to the router and will be accessed both via wifi and cable.
So here I am choosing a NAS and I would like to have the following features:
• 2 bays, I think I will go for independent HDD as I have 2T and 1T USB drive for Back up really important stuff. I am tempted by WD red 4Tb HDDs
• Able to have NFS and/or SMB shares
• Can easily access through the internet to share stuff with my relatives/mates (FTP I guess)
• Can automatically back up iPhone and Android pictures (other things not critical)
• Easy back up of SD cards for pictures
• Back up one itinerant laptop via cable
The rest is not critical but could be a nice touch
• Torrent download
• Ip cam accessible via internet (iPhone, Android)
I live in China so some things are cheaper some aren’t and some things are available some aren’t…
Given all that I made this short list:
• Qnap TS212P (about 185USD)
• Synology DS213j (about 185USD)
• Asustor AS-202TE (about 215USD)
The last one is about the same price but is atom based and can run XBMC directly seems much more powerful / future proof?
So any advice?
Mickael