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<blockquote data-quote="cptkrf" data-source="post: 1623055" data-attributes="member: 134861">Mark my experiences with NAS as bad.&nbsp; I have tried a Lacie and a WD, although not in RAID configuration.&nbsp;&nbsp; Got so mad at them that I ripped them apart to salvage the hard drives for use in an ordinary USB case.I have settled on exactly what you are trying to get away from.&nbsp; An old Mac mini on the shelf, with a 2tb and at 3tb drive on the USB ports, and shared to everything in the house.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is on a separate internal network with no connection to the Internet so I don't have security problems to fool with.For an internal Dropbox clone for quick and temporary sharing, I connected a 1tb laptop drive to my Airport Extreme.&nbsp; That works better than Airdrop to move big stuff between the Macs.Built a NAS out of a Raspberry PI and an external drive, but it wasn't satisfactory either, although it didn't corrupt or just flat lose my data like the commercial ones.&nbsp; It was just slow.I would like a nice NAS, sitting in the corner and forgotten, but it hasn't happened yet, unless I call the old Mini a NAS.&nbsp; It is working fine, if not exactly plug and play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cptkrf, post: 1623055, member: 134861"] Mark my experiences with NAS as bad. I have tried a Lacie and a WD, although not in RAID configuration. Got so mad at them that I ripped them apart to salvage the hard drives for use in an ordinary USB case. I have settled on exactly what you are trying to get away from. An old Mac mini on the shelf, with a 2tb and at 3tb drive on the USB ports, and shared to everything in the house. It is on a separate internal network with no connection to the Internet so I don't have security problems to fool with. For an internal Dropbox clone for quick and temporary sharing, I connected a 1tb laptop drive to my Airport Extreme. That works better than Airdrop to move big stuff between the Macs. Built a NAS out of a Raspberry PI and an external drive, but it wasn't satisfactory either, although it didn't corrupt or just flat lose my data like the commercial ones. It was just slow. I would like a nice NAS, sitting in the corner and forgotten, but it hasn't happened yet, unless I call the old Mini a NAS. It is working fine, if not exactly plug and play. [/QUOTE]

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