![]() For example, if you had 3 people trying to stream 1080p (HD) video on a 802.11B wireless network they are going to have to deal with slow network speeds and (potentially) one hard drive trying to squeeze 3 HD videos down a small network pipe. NAS drives are as fast as the network they are connected to and the activity they are performing. To give you a flavour of just what this means, take a look at the possibilities below!įrom this you can see that the potential to centralise all your picture, music and movies is pretty compelling. The NAS drive connects to your network router and provides the ability to store and retrieve data to (almost) any other device that can connect to the same network. If you’re wanting yet more info, check out the Wiki article on it. torrent files, FTP access, user management, etc. For the technically minded, those bits and pieces are a network port, sometimes a USB port (to enable attachment of other USB devices including printers) and typically a micro kernal flavour of Linux allowing some other features such as the ability to automatically download. If you’ve not heard of NAS (or Network Attached Storage) already then this might be the answer for you! What is NAS?Ī NAS drive is one or more 3.5″ hard drives contained in an enclosure along with some additional bits and pieces to make it more than just a hard drive. – You probably have also wondered how can you organise them a little better so you don’t have to go to one place for pictures, another for music, etc. Over time you may come to realise that you have lots of files everywhere (SD cards, hard drives, USB memory sticks, Facebook, etc). Equally, there are many ways to consume those formats – Desktop, Laptop, tablets, PDA, phone. In this age of digital media, everyone is taking photos (JPGs), listening to music (MP3, OGG, FLAC), taking videos (MP4, DivX, MPG, MKV) – and there are plenty of other formats for each of those to choose as an alternative. (Author’s note: This post is for those not as familiar with the full extent of digital media tools, apps and hardware there are a multitude of solutions out there and this is to bring the subject to the wider audience). ![]()
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