Hello all
Let me introduce me a bit. I'm Rini from The Netherlands. Sorry for the bad english.
Married, father of 2 daughters. Some days our house is like a chicken farm. Then I escape to the attic to play a bit with a few old computers.
Around 5 years ago I bought my first Nas to store our familie pictures / videos. And did use it as backup for my laptop. On that Nas there is an external usb drive that daily backup the Nas during the night.
It is an WD Live book duo 6tb that we have in mirror state so effectivly we can use 3 tb. In the 5 year 1 time an hdd gave up.
We replaced it and we were ready to go again. Not losing any data.
A bit later I decided to use the Nas as time machine for my both macs. That didnt really work well. I stopped with that.
We all did use iPhones at that time, most of us still do btw. We use the WD tool my cloud to backup pictures / videos to the Nas.
I'm using an Windows 10 mobile phone, lumia 950. And that phone is not supported by WD, at least it has no apps.
For our family we are using office 365 family, this is an paid service for 69,- per year. With that we have 1 tb space.
And to be honest it works very well. If I need to reinstall my laptop everything is placed back as it was. If I create an favorite from an internet website it is showing up on all devices.
We use the office apps on our phone for documents review / edit.
Since our Nas is lets say 5 years old now, it feels like each day the thing is alive is an miracle. That is why i'm here for a bit advise for the next step.
Perhaps it can run for another year or longer, or it dies in a minute.
With our old Nas there is basically not much you can do with. It does what it has to do, it does it slow (20 MB speed on gigabit), for us not real problem the speed to be honest.
I'm a bit looking around for another Nas as replacement for the old WD. And the choice is enormous. Bit overwhelming.
Most likely the first question would be, what are you going to do with the Nas.
I grouped it a bit.
What is an deal breaker:
+ Must have an app for my Windows 10 mobile phone. As far I understand iPhone / iPads are covered with all brands.
+ Must have access on the go, when not at home be able to upload the pictures / video's.
Nice to have:
+ Stream to 2 ipads at the same time, so our oldest daughter and wife can watch Ncis / Peppa Pig
+ Stop with the paid office 365 and contiue just with an Nas. Means that we create an document on our mobile devices, and save on Nas.
+ For dad play a bit with the apps on the Nas ( have a few old pc's to play with) when the girls are watching shows on there tablets, as far I understand a Nas these day come with apps. If the rest stays stable, and not jeopardy data loss.
+ Creating Favorites (website) on computer shows on mobile devices to
I was attracted to these devices, since they fit in my budget for around E300,-:
Synology DS216+II: People are liking the software
Qnap TS-251A : where I would like the usb port on the front, since our laptop has just 100mb ethernet)
WD My cloud ultra ex2 : Same price,but populated with 2 drives. Most likely no go, no windows 10 phone apps.
Perhaps there are much better choices for me, perhaps cheaper. I hope you can advice me a bit.
Would be nice if the new Nas can remain another 5 years.
thank you very much in advance.
br,
Rini
Let me introduce me a bit. I'm Rini from The Netherlands. Sorry for the bad english.
Married, father of 2 daughters. Some days our house is like a chicken farm. Then I escape to the attic to play a bit with a few old computers.
Around 5 years ago I bought my first Nas to store our familie pictures / videos. And did use it as backup for my laptop. On that Nas there is an external usb drive that daily backup the Nas during the night.
It is an WD Live book duo 6tb that we have in mirror state so effectivly we can use 3 tb. In the 5 year 1 time an hdd gave up.
We replaced it and we were ready to go again. Not losing any data.
A bit later I decided to use the Nas as time machine for my both macs. That didnt really work well. I stopped with that.
We all did use iPhones at that time, most of us still do btw. We use the WD tool my cloud to backup pictures / videos to the Nas.
I'm using an Windows 10 mobile phone, lumia 950. And that phone is not supported by WD, at least it has no apps.
For our family we are using office 365 family, this is an paid service for 69,- per year. With that we have 1 tb space.
And to be honest it works very well. If I need to reinstall my laptop everything is placed back as it was. If I create an favorite from an internet website it is showing up on all devices.
We use the office apps on our phone for documents review / edit.
Since our Nas is lets say 5 years old now, it feels like each day the thing is alive is an miracle. That is why i'm here for a bit advise for the next step.
Perhaps it can run for another year or longer, or it dies in a minute.
With our old Nas there is basically not much you can do with. It does what it has to do, it does it slow (20 MB speed on gigabit), for us not real problem the speed to be honest.
I'm a bit looking around for another Nas as replacement for the old WD. And the choice is enormous. Bit overwhelming.
Most likely the first question would be, what are you going to do with the Nas.
I grouped it a bit.
What is an deal breaker:
+ Must have an app for my Windows 10 mobile phone. As far I understand iPhone / iPads are covered with all brands.
+ Must have access on the go, when not at home be able to upload the pictures / video's.
Nice to have:
+ Stream to 2 ipads at the same time, so our oldest daughter and wife can watch Ncis / Peppa Pig
+ Stop with the paid office 365 and contiue just with an Nas. Means that we create an document on our mobile devices, and save on Nas.
+ For dad play a bit with the apps on the Nas ( have a few old pc's to play with) when the girls are watching shows on there tablets, as far I understand a Nas these day come with apps. If the rest stays stable, and not jeopardy data loss.
+ Creating Favorites (website) on computer shows on mobile devices to
I was attracted to these devices, since they fit in my budget for around E300,-:
Synology DS216+II: People are liking the software
Qnap TS-251A : where I would like the usb port on the front, since our laptop has just 100mb ethernet)
WD My cloud ultra ex2 : Same price,but populated with 2 drives. Most likely no go, no windows 10 phone apps.
Perhaps there are much better choices for me, perhaps cheaper. I hope you can advice me a bit.
Would be nice if the new Nas can remain another 5 years.
thank you very much in advance.
br,
Rini
