First, what are the characteristics (or advantages) of NAS:
A mature home NAS generally has the following characteristics:
1, support multi-protocol, such as NFS, CIFS, FTP, etc., some mature home NAS has HTTP interface can achieve web access, management, settings, etc., the market mature NAS system can generally support multiple operating systems.
2, the volume is generally relatively small, the appearance is more beautiful. Of course, please ignore this for corporate use.
3, the function is relatively single, not as complex as the PC, do not need to have so many functions.
4. Support multi-bay bits (there are also disk bits), and multi-bay NAS generally supports disk arrays.
5, home NAS is generally easy to deploy.
6, good stability! (This is the most important, my NAS is almost 7 * 24 hours to boot without updating the firmware, for it is specially configured with UPS uninterruptible power supply, it has been nearly a month since the last boot, and there are several years of friends who do not shut down... This feature makes home PCs so embarrassing... ）
7. Strong scalability.
Second, based on these characteristics of NAS, what can it do in family life:
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1. Storage and backup
Needless to say. Now the home NAS system on the market basically has automatic backup function, and some manufacturers even develop PC clients with automatic backup. Like I use Synology's NAS, in addition to supporting Windows backup and MAC Time Machine, it also supports the home-developed backup software Data Replicator. Some people may say, I back up with a block of mobile hard disk is good, or I use x-degree cloud disk, x60 cloud disk, x-mountain fast disk backup can not be, of course, but if your data like me is often a few G or dozens of G or even a few T video multimedia data, you know that using those things to do backup is simply a pit daddy! Using a NAS can properly solve these problems, you only need to deploy the NAS in the home LAN, set up the automatic backup function, all these problems will be solved. If your home LAN is using a Gigabit intranet (intranet Gigabit is not a Gigabit Internet, the cost of setting up is not high, do not understand the need to do it yourself), the backup speed can reach or even exceed the speed of your local hard disk backup (Gigabit network can theoretically reach 100 Gigabit transmission speed, plus NAS disk array. Speed will make you feel like the whole sky is lit up, trust me), if you have switches at home and support link aggregation, and your NAS happens to support it, then your PC to NAS speed will even double, and some NAS even support 10 Gigabit networks (well, almost nothing for home use).
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2. Sharing and collaborative work of resources
In today's increasingly developed technology, there are too many ways to share resources, and software such as mobile hard disks, network disks, U disks and even QQ can share resources. But none of them are as convenient as NAS. For example: if you only have one computer in your family, all the family information is stored on this PC, your daughter wants to see her photos of the Thailand graduation trip in the computer, your wife wants to see the American dramas that are stored in the computer that have not yet been watched, you want to deal with the official documents that you exist in the computer, and your mother wants to see the photos of your granddaughter when she was a child, and it just so happens that these needs happen at the same time, is it difficult to do it? If you have a NAS and your data is stored in the NAS, these problems will be solved. Your daughter can use IPAD to connect to the NAS and view her graduation travel photos, your wife can use the DLNA function of the TV to directly play the TV series stored in the NAS, you continue to use the computer to process your work, and your mother can directly connect to the NAS with the mobile phone to see the photos of your granddaughter when she was a child! The point is, it can all happen at the same time! No data copy required! As long as all the devices are in the LAN you added, everything is so convenient. Another example: If you and your wife are freelance designers, HOME OFFICE, you usually need to use a lot of design materials to do design. If these materials are stored separately in your husband and wife's respective computers, it will take up a lot of space and waste resources. If there is a portable hard disk, it will be inconvenient for two people to use it at the same time. What about swelling? With NAS, this problem is solved again. Store the material files in the NAS, and both working computers can read the design materials in the NAS through the network! No need to waste more storage space, and no need to compete for hard disks when busy to affect the relationship between husband and wife!
3. Free offline download
Yes, you understand that right, it's a private offline download service! You say, I can download it directly. That's right, a word file I didn't bother you with NAS! I'm talking about packaged video files that are often dozens of G's or t's (you know... ）！ You say, I have X Thunder offline and X Wind offline! Yes, but that's a member-only feature that requires you to pay monthly. And you still need to download resources from the cloud to your local location. You say, I can always open the computer to download ah! Of course, you can, but open a computer for a few days and dozens of days in a row, and the electricity bill is also a big expense, right? Imagine if your home PC happened to be in your bedroom, would you have to endure the noise of fans and hard drives at night? And if you have a NAS, no need to pay, just add the resources to your download list, and then go to work or sleep properly, and when you come back or wake up, the next good resources have been properly lying in your NAS, use your Gigabit network to watch it, even the steps of copying to the local area are saved! What, you say also need electricity bills? Do you think a single digit power when in standby, access when the power does not exceed 30W of the gadget energy consumption of how many electricity you? Of course, the download efficiency of nas may not be as fast as Thunderbolt offline, but if you are a Thunderbolt member, some NAS also support you to download resources directly from your Thunderbolt offline space! (For example, the Synology I use has the function of Thunderbolt members to download offline resources)
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4. Audio-visual entertainment function - family's audio-visual entertainment center:
As a video library, it stores movies and TV series. Cooperate with a smart TV or TV box to form a home theater. Pairing up with Tinmediamanager to sort out the poster wall will make you feel good. This is the main function of the family nas, I usually use the ds video app on the phone to find the latest downloaded movies in the nas, and mirror the screen to the smart TV or smart projection. The way to cast the screen here is different from other mobile video apps, and the data does not need to be passed: the mobile phone downloads the > decodes the > the wifi screen projection to the TV, which repeatedly occupies the network bandwidth, occupies the mobile phone and the routing processing performance. Instead, directly use the smart TV to decode the movies inside your nas, and the network speed and video decoding ability are the best. Or you can use the TV directly to install ds video. Powerful content-rich download machine. A rrshare docker is enough to kill many paid video sites, and you can also use code to automatically crawl resources, and the latest movies, episodes, games, and dramas are all in the pocket.
5. Other additional functions:
For example: set up a private cloud (Synology nas even provides mobile client support!). Thumbs up! ), running crawlers, making soft routes, as a home smart home server, remote monitoring, web server, printer server, etc., these small servers can achieve the function, NAS can basically. The NAS also supports basic functions such as multi-user login and permission management. To put it back to the previous sentence, "NAS is actually a private cloud server that serves other devices in the home."
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