I’m really looking into building a NAS for my Mac. I got the 256gb MacBook Air and currently back up the machine using a nvme drive over type c but having to plug it in to access video files and backup every couple days is not ideal. With how cheap physical storage is now, a NAS seems like a good solution. Does anyone have a NAS at home and can share the software and hardware needed to make it run smoothly?
I use a Synology DS920+ And have been very happy with it. I have time machine running for several MacBooks. I also use it as a Jellyfin server.
The Synology setup is easy and it is smooth to add new drives. Just remember to add the smallest drives first. If you have two 4 tb drives setup, don’t buy a 2tb drive to add more space, but going up to an 8 is no problem.
We have a couple of Synology NAS at the office (I forget the models). One is geared towards data sharing on the LAN and the other is used by our off-site employees. We managed to get a git server running which is nice, but that’s an interesting idea to use them for Time Machine. As it stands, we just issue everyone a personal TM external drive and call it a day, but I might look into this.
It was pretty easy to set up. There was a time machine setting somewhere that makes it so the Mac will just see it as a viable backup location.
Having everyone’s TM on the NAS would make it easy to set up some sort of offsite mirror as well.
I just googled Synology Time Machine setup or something and there were a ton of guides.
+1. Have same setup.