A NAS box is great for storing and sharing data amongst the family. I only have a cheap one but its the central store for all our photos so we can all see them.
I did have problems doing the initial upload of data as in the transfer kept crashing which made it hard to verify everything was there. This is a case of you get what you pay for and I didn't pay.
It is slower that a directly connected drive but once the data is loaded accessing is no problem given its really just the odd file here and there. I would not use one as a work drive, stick to an external USB drive for that.
I am also looking to increase my storage and backup capacity so i'll be interested to see what you come up with.
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