Home Media Storage and Streaming

Your Digital photos, home video and MP3 music files are all valuable, sometimes priceless, personal assets, using your network attached storage is a perfect way of ensuring you always have an easilly accessible, centralised and secure backup of these digital artifacts. 

 

Backing up your Laptop or Desktop computer image and files is a part of good management of your IT assets (protecting you from issues related to those irritating spyware or viruses you can pick up from the internet).  The operating systems themselves (XP, W7 & 8 etc.) encourage you to do so, but with a NAS it couldn't be easier, just schedule your backup routine to save the images/files to the NAS regularly and leave it to get on with it.  Check it has worked, but then relax in the knowledge that your computer configuration and files are safely backed up.

 

It is even possible to backup from the NAS to the internet (with a contract to a Cloud supplier) ensuring your data can never be lost.  This form of backup is often slower than having your own private cloud (NAS) but may provide you with that extra piece of mind.

 

You can automatically back up your important files from Windows PC to a NAS over the network. You can execute real-time synchronization and scheduled backup from multiple PCs to some NAS's, and also restore the data to the original location or to a new directory in the event of a PC crash. In addition, some NAS's are compatible with many third-party backup software applications including Apple Time Machine.  WIth your data backed up to a NAS you never have to worry about the PC’s hard drive crashing and data loss, because it is easy for everyone to centrally store, protect, and recover files on the NAS with advanced data protection. You can conveniently share all the photos, music, and movies/videos with your family and friends. Furthermore, different family members can be assigned to access specific share folders for privacy. All the advanced software features are built-in without extra effort and cost.