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Best NAS drive for media streaming and backup<\/h2>\n

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Network-attached storage (NAS) is just the ticket for storing and streaming your own videos, music, and digital photos around the house and even across the world. It can be just like Spotify, YouTube, or Netflix, except with your own media.<\/p>\n

NAS is also immensely handy for backing up and synchronizing the data on your computers and mobile devices. Backing up to local storage is much faster than relying on a cloud service such as DropBox or OneDrive, and the same goes for restoring an accidentally deleted file or recovering from a crashed system.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also easy to set up a NAS box to function just like those cloud services, enabling access from anywhere in the world. In fact, NAS box builders have taken to calling their products \u201cprivate clouds\u201d in an effort to make the concept more familiar to consumers.<\/p>\n

Updated July 20, 2020\u00a0<\/strong>to add our Asustor AS5202T (Nimbustor) NAS box review. This incredibly power box features 2.5GbE ports that can be aggregated to achieve data rates up to 5Gbps. It also has what it takes to be a powerful media streamer, including a 2GHz Intel Celeron processor, 2GB of DDR4-2400 memory, and HDMI 2.0a, so you can connect it directly to your 4K TV. And it\u2019s affordable enough to become our top pick in the mainstream media-streaming NAS box category.<\/i><\/p>\n

To get the best of both worlds, most boxes will sync with cloud storage services, providing another layer of data redundancy and disaster-recovery options. If you experience a disaster at home\u2014a flood, fire, or earthquake\u2014you\u2019ll at least have the peace of mind that comes with knowing your data is safely backed up at another physical location.<\/p>\n

A word on pricing: Not all NAS box manufacturers also build hard drives, so many of them sell these boxes \u201cunpopulated;\u201d i.e., without any hard drives installed. When you\u2019re comparing prices, make sure you know whether or not the drivers are included. If you\u2019re not familiar with formatting a hard drive or setting up an array of drives, you might find it more convenient to buy a NAS box that\u2019s populated and ready to go right out of the box.<\/p>\n

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