NAS for Co-Worker

[TomSerious]

Hello everyone!

 

So my Co-worker built a house and asked me if I could help him with Networking (hardware and software).

 

He wants a NAS for media streaming with a maximum of 4 or 5 Clients (TV / Phone / PC, NB).

 

I built my own NAS, but I am not that confident to build him a custom one.

 

So I am searching for a reliable, good, but also good price/performance, 2 or 4 bay Rackmount NAS. 

So far I was thinking about "NETGEAR ReadyNAS RN3138-100NES".

 

Do you have any suggestions??

 

Thank you very much in advance!

[leadeater]

QNAP and Synology are my top rated ones, don't like Netgear much as I've had issues with them in the past.

 

https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-463u

https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TS-463U-4-Bay-IP-SAN-2-0GHz/dp/B015JULHVQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525256451&sr=8-1&keywords=TS-463U

 

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RS816

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-4bay-RackStation-RS816-Diskless/dp/B01K1JSKC4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525256743&sr=8-1&keywords=RackStation+RS816

 

https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RS818+

https://www.amazon.com/Synology-RS818-4bay-RackStation-Diskless/dp/B078W54Z5M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525256767&sr=8-1&keywords=RackStation+RS818%2B

[NelizMastr]

Does it have to be rackmount? If so, I'd get a shelf and put something like a DS218+ or DS418+ on it.

 

As you can see from the following link:

https://nascompares.com/2017/12/20/ds218-nas-transcode-4k-and-1080p-performance-test-featuring-h-264-and-h-265/

 

It should handle 2-3 4K streams so regular 1080p content won't be an issue in h264 format. And they're reasonably cheap