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JPSmit

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Good morning friends, I have been meaning to ask this for quite some time. A couple of weeks I finally got the TV's we own mounted on the wall and hooked up properly to the web and to the antenna that we now use. As a part of sorting out the technology, I have been wondering about adding an NAS computer to the network.

As I see it, the advantages would be twofold.

1. A hardwired location (in the wifi network) to backup files - currently I have in dropbox and some on a hard drive but don't really know the last time I backed up my system.

2. A way to finally get rid of many DVD's and CDs. and a way to actually (possibly) watch or listen to them - currently they sit in the closet.

So, any thoughts or experience or ideas? I really don't want to "make" anything - I am prepared to pay a premium to just buy something that works. That said, if I go this route, do I get one big drive or two smaller - for redundancy or ??? I don't really understand it all but it seems like it may be helpful.

Oh and, I presume if I have one the house Mac users and the house PC users can share it.
 
I have this: 8TB My Could Mirror Which is a NAS I use for multiple purposes. I like the mirror version for the added security because it automatically provides for a complete backup of all your data (There is also a My Cloud that is a single drive). This drive, used as a RAID, is really 2x4TB drives mirrored together, but you can use it as one large 8TB drive (not recommended). It connects to your wireless router and is accessible from any computer on your network. Also, you create an account with WD and can access this drive and any files on it from anywhere on the internet (like your own personal drop box). There are different capacities to meet your needs (4TB [2x2TB) all the way to 12TB [2x6TB]) It will allow you to stream movies to your "smart TV" but it does not work with iTunes. For that reason, my iTunes library is on a regular 3TB drive connected to my MAC (I have have an Apple TV connected to my TV for accessing movies/music in my iTunes library).
 
Make sre whatever it is you purchase it is expandable. With things like the new supersized HD, who's technical name I don't recall, coming online even 12TB isn't going to be that big anymore. Depending on how much stuff you want to actually keep instead of stream from from the net, could fill up quicker than you think.
 
Thanks all - and Basil, thanks for the itunes bit - that is helpful!
 
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