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<blockquote data-quote="sfam198" data-source="post: 1309634" data-attributes="member: 204618">The NAS is going to take a lot more configuration to get it to the point of &quot;It just works&quot; you would get with Time Machine and a large external drive.&nbsp; It will also be a more expensive investment for little gain.&nbsp; As your storage needs increase, you will still need to purchase bigger/more hard drives.Question: How long has the 160GB drive taken to fill up?&nbsp; You say you have Time Machine connected to that drive.&nbsp; Are all your other devices using that for storage as well?My suggestion would be to get a large drive (2 TB) and partition it.&nbsp; Then, use one partition for Time Machine backups and the other for storage.&nbsp; Depending on how long it took to fill up the 160 GB drive you have currently, this setup could last you a LONG time.&nbsp; Even partitioning the drive in half (1 TB per partition), each &quot;drive&quot; would be over 6 times as large as what you have now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sfam198, post: 1309634, member: 204618"] The NAS is going to take a lot more configuration to get it to the point of "It just works" you would get with Time Machine and a large external drive. It will also be a more expensive investment for little gain. As your storage needs increase, you will still need to purchase bigger/more hard drives. Question: How long has the 160GB drive taken to fill up? You say you have Time Machine connected to that drive. Are all your other devices using that for storage as well? My suggestion would be to get a large drive (2 TB) and partition it. Then, use one partition for Time Machine backups and the other for storage. Depending on how long it took to fill up the 160 GB drive you have currently, this setup could last you a LONG time. Even partitioning the drive in half (1 TB per partition), each "drive" would be over 6 times as large as what you have now. [/QUOTE]

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