I am looking into getting a NAS setup at home, but have to consider wanting it to just work and work for my family who are not technically advanced. They use computers fine, but being asked to open a terminal would require letter by letter instructions.

So my question, what is the current recommendation for a simple home NAS for files and video (family trips, etc) storage?

  • redballooon
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    1 year ago

    old Pc

    Watch power consumption though. It matters for a device that runs potentially 24/7

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      1 year ago

      Very true. It runs at good throttled speeds and the biggest power consumers are the hard drives themselves. Not to mention everyone else recommending different OS but no mention of hardware except people recommending synology boxes.

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        1 year ago

        Oh I would recommend Synology too, but since many already did there’s no reason to do this again.