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[grain.ben]

Has anyone had any experience on using these little boxes? I'm seriously thinking about getting one, preferably Netgear, as our household is getting over-run by laptops ect ect, we have 4 laptops and was thinking of having centralized storage for all of our peripherals, not to mention the extra desktop I'm thinking of building 

[b4ndit]

my nephew is using one at present, and he says it is brilliant and I can connect to it and download programs from it as well. The one he has he can connect drives up to 15 tb hope this helps

[grain.ben]

my nephew is using one at present, and he says it is brilliant and I can connect to it and download programs from it as well. The one he has he can connect drives up to 15 tb hope this helps

Any idea how good the security is for that feature, I have a large family with lots of computers, which in turn, I always get asked to fix computers ect ect, and this feature would save me time having to put all the software I need on an external HDD/USB stick

[SIR Philbutt]

I've got an Iomega (as well as driving one) 2TB with cloud function from Curry's £89 (xmas sale) bargain. Think they are about £140 now.

Plug in connect and moved all my music, video, pictures, backups to it. Now accessing from xbox, ps3, desktop and 2 laptops. Soon also to be from smart TV.

HTH
Phil

[grain.ben]

I've got an Iomega (as well as driving one) 2TB with cloud function from Curry's £89 (xmas sale) bargain. Think they are about £140 now.

Plug in connect and moved all my music, video, pictures, backups to it. Now accessing from xbox, ps3, desktop and 2 laptops. Soon also to be from smart TV.

HTH
Phil

This is one of the reasons why id like one  , oh, and to use as a GayTunes server 

[b4ndit]

security is whatever you set it to and allow people to connect to the drive, anti virus is whatever you use on your pc

[TheBoy]

At work, we use big NAS systems, not the toys.

ReadyNAS used to be the best of the toy ones, but to be honest, since Netgear bought them, the systems have stagnated.


What do you want to use it for?

[grain.ben]

At work, we use big NAS systems, not the toys.

ReadyNAS used to be the best of the toy ones, but to be honest, since Netgear bought them, the systems have stagnated.


What do you want to use it for?

Centralized storage and back-ups from 4 laptops, plus streaming of media and to use it as a GayTunes server

I like the look of those readyNAS ones and its one Id prefer to go for, not sure how big yet though, might go for a 4bay x4 2TB/3TB WD Red HDD's

[aaronjb]

I have two 8-bay QNAPs at home (a TS-859+ and a TS-869+) and I've had no problems with them at all really - the software is pretty nice now from a UI point of view, you can run third party software on them via point & click packages or as it's really just a Linux box (like all it's brethren) you can SSH in and play.

One has Crashplan running on it so all my laptops & PCs can do nice incremental backups to it all the time they're turned on and connected to the WiFi and the other has all my other stuff.

QNAP or Synology would be at the top of my list if I were looking for another, based on personal experience and reports of others where I work.