Synology DS211J

Tested at £160
100100
5

Some people will be put off at the first step – but for others this could be the perfect media-friendly NAS device

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An excellent device, I currently have it configured with 2 Samsung 1.5 TB hard disks, which for the moment provide sufficient storage space. It is indeed not the easiest to set-up, but all the time and effort is paid-off once you have it up and running. You can watch video with a network media player in full HD, use it as a library for iTunes (you no longer have to store your music files on your laptop or PC), browse, copy, paste  the content from any PC anywhere in the world. With the free iPhone apps you can listen to all your music stored, enjoy your pictures and even watch video files if they are saved in a compatible format from anywhere you are. I also use it to store documents, so for me it is a complete device. Not to mention a great back-up tool, which I fully used on the 29th of December, when my laptop crashed. Every document as well as all the e-mails were restored on the new laptop without a sweat. As a conclusion, I highly  recommend this device.

I have the more extended (4 disk bays) DS410. This NAS also has the capability to use RAID5 configuration for secure storage. I must say that the manual is very good but I still have some trouble installing it and using the full features. Although it complies to the DLNA protocol, I still have to find a way to connect it seamlessly to my DLNA Sony TV.

So many possibilities but some assistance from an advanced digital media geek is recommended...

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