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The only redundancy you can add is by using mirroring on the discs (I would avoid any RAID levels beyond mirroring for a server). And if any component fails, the whole thing is trashed because you cannot fix any single component (other than the hard drives themselves to replace them). The power supply is a ticking time bomb and never high quality (the way to know is by their size, thermal handling require size, it's tiny, so it will always be at its hottest point for handling thermals). And none of their hardware is ECC (error correcting). These are basically tiny small component mini-computers with a basic power supply and connections for SATA to interface with drives and networking. This is not what you will find in a commercial entry level NAS device (like Synology, QNAP, etc). I'm a little biased when it comes to real NAS/Servers, because to have a system hold data and serve it out all the time, it needs to have high uptime, high integrity and high redundancy with fast reliably networking. You can do that via just basic file sharing or you can map the network drive to your client for simplicity. Whatever you choose to do, with the above, you can setup SMB sharing so that other devices on the network can see the shared data (your 4K content and whatever else) and access it over the network. 8TB drives are quite affordable these days, and you can easily get 12TB and 14TB drives for a good price too (look up 'Shucking' of external drives). This is why its important to be able to select good quality drives and not gamble on that, and you can setup redundancy with several drives so that your data can survive a drive fault or error.

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Otherwise, you can even use any basic Windows or Linux distro to do basic file sharing over a network if you're more comfortable with that.ĤK content will have large file size, so you'll want high capacity drives.

#BEST NAS FOR HOME USE 2017 QUIET HOW TO#

Lots of youtube videos and tutorials on how to do the basic stuff with a support forum that is highly active. FreeNAS is the easiest in my opinion and experience, easy to install, easy to use, easy to setup sharing. Popular ways to operate the system is with a Ubuntu Server (Linux) or with something like FreeNAS (FreeBSD). Every single operating system for this purpose will have this available. To serve out access you can use SAMBA (SMB) sharing, this is the most common. This means you get to choose a high quality power supply and that's a big deal with 24/7 always on servers. You can use an older system for this, no need for modern components other than it having access to good networking controller cards and plenty of SATA connections. You can make it very inexpensively with common parts.

Personally I would recommend building your own server or NAS instead of buying one. If you build a server yourself, it can be done very inexpensively and with much higher quality components and you can choose what operating system to use and how to address file sharing, security, etc. That's the compromise for convenience of it being a 'works out of the box' solution with no knowledge of anything, meant for anyone to use without any know-how. The only thing you have access to are the HDD's themselves. The commercial NAS devices are ok, they're not high quality components or anything, so there's no trouble shooting if something is wrong and you cannot replace parts if something fails over time. It's better to select your own HDD's so that you can get quality drives and not just gamble on what is pre-installed. You can buy a pre-built NAS device and it may or may not come with HDD's.

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