The WD is less highly regarded and has been on the market for 4 or 5 years. The Synology gets high marks as a home NAS from just about everyone and is a new unit released earlier this year. I'm looking at the Synology DS220j ($170 bare, add $200+ for a pair of 4TB drives) and the WD M圜loud EX2 Ultra ($330 populated with 2 4TB drives). I may start backing up the iMac to the NAS as well. I also have an iMac with a 2TB drive attached for backups, but that drive died yesterday reminding me it's time to retire the Time Capsule for a new NAS before it fails.

It's an older 3TB model backing up two MB Airs. In these cases the video sometimes 'stutters' - I think it has to do with the fact that my wi-fi router is quite far away from my TV, I tried once getting it closer and that seemed to fix the performance.NAS to replace Time Capsule I'm considering replacing my Time Capsule which is approaching 10 years in use. Other than that the only performance issues I have are with the large files (1080p HD) that have a lot of high-pitched background noises. In 5+ years of using Serviio, it crashed only once, after an update clashed with JAVA version on my PC.

I particularly like that I can organize the files in any way I can think of, and choose to hide/show categories so that the path to the files that I want takes the minimal amount of steps. It plays pretty much any format that I throw at it, refreshes the library automatically or you can force it to refresh right away after adding a file. I found Serviio and haven't looked back because it just works.

But it was very picky when it came to the different formats and updating media library, and I went looking for something better. Monika's Experience I tried using Windows Media Player to stream my media when I got my first smart TV some years ago, and it almost worked.

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