Late last year I decided to get a NAS. I had always toyed with the idea, however I could never justify buying one. After doing a good bit of research I decided to get a ReadyNAS from Netgear. Netgear purchased ReadyNas a couple of years ago and from the outside looking in, it seems they have let ReadyNas continue to run as a separate entity.
The model I chose was the ReadyNas NV+ . It has 4 hot swappable SATA drive slots and supports most big hard drives available on the market today. I got myself 2 x 2TB drives to start with and set them up in the default config.
All in all my experince with the ReadyNas NV+ has been great, I had some minor dramas getting the media streaming services to work, however some quick trouble shooting soon resolved that for me.
Enough about the ReadyNAS.
Why do I need a NAS?
Well I cannot see myself sending 2 terabytes of data to the cloud anytime soon and even if I did, the bandwidth access to the data would not be sufficient.
What data do I store on it?
The trigger point for me to invest in a nas came when I started converting all my DVD's into MKV using Make MKV and storing them onto hard drive to avoid my kids destroying the discs. This trend continued as I then moved all my Wii games to disk and then onto making images of all the kids PC games. This has resulted in a large amount of data which is semi important and needs to be always available on my network.
The end solution has been fantastic, the kids can easily choose what they want to watch or play and I never have to cringe when I see them open a DVD drive or throw a CD around the room.
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