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1. #BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY MOVIE#
2. #BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY PLUS#
3. #BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY TV#

You buy a NAS, buy hard drives to fill it to a capacity that suits your needs, and plug it into your home router. With its business tech legacy, there's a common assumption that a NAS takes serious technical skills to get up and running.Īpps like this make it easy to explore your NAS photo collection directly from any mobile device.īut today it's as straight forward as adding anything else to your home network. In my home we've even got our NAS running a Minecraft server as the host for a shared family world. But there's plenty for home users too, with photo, music and video apps that make for a very user-friendly interface to all your stored content.

#BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY PLUS#

There are a lot of business-style features among them - email servers, web servers, databases, plus Synology is adding a lot of features like private calendars, chat systems and even word processing and spreadsheets.

The application options keep growing too. You can also setup your NAS to make your files available from outside your home, so you'll always have access to your media collections and files whenever and wherever you need them.

#BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY TV#

Synology and QNAP (another NAS maker) have both released apps for the newest Apple TV ( $70 at eBay) as well.

#BEST NAS FOR HOME THEATER AND SECURITY MOVIE#

Any smart TV can also treat such a NAS as a media server, streaming your music, photo galleries and movie collections across your network in real time. Today's home-friendly NAS - Synology options lead the pack in the CNET NAS round up - comes with a desktop-like interface you access through a web browser along with dedicated apps for phones and tablets. Just like a desktop, but through a web browser. It's everything we were promised by home theatre PCs without the fuss of managing TV connections and the dramas of a full-fat operating system. Peace of mind humming away quietly under a desk.īut now the NAS has become the ultimate home hub for music, video and photo storage. At first the magic of owning a NAS was having a significant chunk of storage on my home network for running automatic backups of other PCs. First a ReadyNAS NV+ (bought from a company called Infrant, which is now a part of Netgear) and today a Synology DiskStation. Personally, I've been using home NAS for 10 years. What a NAS was 10 years ago is not what it is today. It didn't do anything particularly useful with those files except share them and do its best to keep them safe from data failure. When it was named, it was nothing more than a dumb box of hard drives used to organise and share files among a wider network of computers. Network Attached Storage is an awfully dull name for an incredibly useful category of products. With plenty of apps and a friendly interface, the modern NAS is an ideal household media hub.