{"id":14795,"date":"2015-03-17T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/2015\/03\/17\/the-advantages-of-nas-usage-for-home\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:14:02","slug":"the-advantages-of-nas-usage-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/2015\/03\/17\/the-advantages-of-nas-usage-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The advantages of NAS usage for home"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www6.pcmag.com\/media\/images\/288411-synology-nas-ds1511.jpg?thumb=y\" width=\"275\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A NAS (Network Attached Storage) is a mass storage device connected to a computer network and works as a file server.<br \/>\nThe device can be composed by a series of hard disk drives and generally run Linux (Embedded) OS.<\/p>\n<p>Main manufacturers are Synology, QNAP, Western Digital, Seagate.<\/p>\n<p>The connection to the network is made with ethernet cable, but there are also models with WiFi.<br \/>\nIn NAS we can find other connections available, USB (2.0\/3.0) ports.<\/p>\n<p>Let see the advantages to use a NAS in an home environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Centralized file storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All files are available at any moment and from any device on multiple platforms. For example you can access files from a Windows PC, or Mac or Linux, perform data backup to the NAS.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Multimedia server<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NAS can work as multimedia server for UPnP\/DLNA enabled devices. Generally you can easily enable this feature from a control panel provided to the user.<br \/>\nOnce enabled you can stream files (video, audio, photo playback) to compatible devices (eg. smart tv, consoles).<br \/>\nNAS can work as iTunes server, you just must enable this feature from the control panel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Print server<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NAS can assume the role of a print server and replace expensive network printers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sync with cloud services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NAS, within specific apps\/services, can interface with various cloud services (eg. Google Drive, Dropbox) and sync files.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download files<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Various NAS provides apps\/services that allows to download files using various protocols (eg. HTTP, FTP, Torrent, eMule) directly into device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>A NAS (Network Attached Storage) is a mass storage device connected to a computer network and works as a file server. The device can be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Simone","author_link":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/category\/gadgets\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gadgets<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gadgets<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 12 years ago","modified":"Updated 12 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 17, 2015","modified":"Updated on March 17, 2015"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 17, 2015 2:14 pm","modified":"Updated on March 17, 2015 2:14 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitalking.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}