Which NAS drive for the Uniti?

Posted by: PeaTea on 01 November 2009

Hello.

I'm trying to get my head around which NAS drive to purchase for use with my Uniti.

I'm not getting the Uniti till Christmas but want to make sure I've got the NAS set up with all my music on it so I'm ready to go.

Has anyone managed to make the Apple Time Capsule work with the Uniti?

Otherwise is it just a case of buying any NAS or are there only some that work?

Thanks,

Paul
Posted on: 01 November 2009 by AS332
Hi Paul , welcome to the forum .
If you do a search on the Forum you should come up with a few ideas with regard to compatability , ease of use and noise etc .
In my case I use a Buffalo Linkstation Live 1TB
which sits in an office upstairs and is linked to my system by CAT5e cable through the house walls . Very easy to set up , strait forward interface and has a print server on it as well .

Good luck with your search .

Ed
Posted on: 02 November 2009 by Alfa4life
Hi Paul

I use a Netgear ReadyNas Duo connected to an Apple airport extreme with my Uniti. All works perfectly. I believe the time capsule is essentially an airport extreme with HD storage added so should not be a problem.

Graham
Posted on: 02 November 2009 by Eloise
quote:
Originally posted by PeaTea:
Has anyone managed to make the Apple Time Capsule work with the Uniti?

If you mean utilising the drive built into the Apple TimeCapsule, then no it will not work with he Unity. You need a NAS which has a UPnP server - I'll leave it to others to suggest some devices which they've found work.

The NAS can happily connect to your TimeCapsule via UTP (Ethernet) cable and use that for networking however.

Eloise
Posted on: 02 November 2009 by gmischol
I have a Netgear Ready NAS Duo, works fine with Uniti but as I do not connect wirelesly but over an Apple Airport I have to say that the noise the fan is producing does disturb me. So I decided to purchase a Ripnas (see ripnas.com) which has no fans but can directly rip to the internal hard drives (Flac, WAV, AAC). Should arrive within the next days. Will report back then.