Thinking of Buying a QNAP TS212
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:56 am
Hi Guys
I am thinking about taking the plunge and buying a QNAP TS212 2 bay enclosure.
This is my first venture into NAS drives. I have four computers in my house with a multitude of ipods iphones etc. Two of the computers are running Mac Snow leopard version 10.6 and two laptops are running Linux Ubuntu 12.04.
I am currently with BT and have infinity with BT Home Hub 3 as my router.
I have a lot of movies I want to share across the network for my children to be able to watch on their linux machines and me on my macbooks.
I have read that QNAP software is very user friendly and as that I am not computer savvy this is a strong must for me.
Can somebody "sell" the machine to me and make me want to buy it, it really is a toss up between QNAP and Synology's DS212J at the moment and I am leaning towards the QNAP as I have read the software interface is very user friendly and easy to use.
Also one last question I m thinking about buying a Blackberry Playbook for my son for xmas as they have been heavily discounted at various places with the kindle fire coming out (He's a big blackberry fiend). Has anybody had any use of hooking playbooks up to the QNAP machine, if so is it easy?? can it stream the movies to the playbook etc. Our movie collection is quite large and I want him to be able to watch movies on his playbook via the NAS drive but don't want it to be overly complicated to sort out.
Thanks
Heysidays
I am thinking about taking the plunge and buying a QNAP TS212 2 bay enclosure.
This is my first venture into NAS drives. I have four computers in my house with a multitude of ipods iphones etc. Two of the computers are running Mac Snow leopard version 10.6 and two laptops are running Linux Ubuntu 12.04.
I am currently with BT and have infinity with BT Home Hub 3 as my router.
I have a lot of movies I want to share across the network for my children to be able to watch on their linux machines and me on my macbooks.
I have read that QNAP software is very user friendly and as that I am not computer savvy this is a strong must for me.
Can somebody "sell" the machine to me and make me want to buy it, it really is a toss up between QNAP and Synology's DS212J at the moment and I am leaning towards the QNAP as I have read the software interface is very user friendly and easy to use.
Also one last question I m thinking about buying a Blackberry Playbook for my son for xmas as they have been heavily discounted at various places with the kindle fire coming out (He's a big blackberry fiend). Has anybody had any use of hooking playbooks up to the QNAP machine, if so is it easy?? can it stream the movies to the playbook etc. Our movie collection is quite large and I want him to be able to watch movies on his playbook via the NAS drive but don't want it to be overly complicated to sort out.
Thanks
Heysidays