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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?

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[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old Pc

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

[–] ColdCreasent@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] redballooon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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