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The best hard drives and NAS for a freelancer or for telecommuting on

 

Do you want to keep your work safe with a good backup if you work at home? Does your office need a good external hard drive to store the most important data? Do you telecommute and do you need to save important information?

We continue with our series of posts in which we discuss which are the best technological options to set up your own home office if you are a self-employed worker, or you simply have to work from home.

Today we are going to see one of the most important parts: How to make a good backup of your most important data, and for them we are going to see a few storage options.

What is a NAS server?

A disk or NAS server is a high-capacity storage that connects to your home or office network so that you can access your files from mobile devices and computers without connecting directly to the unit.

You access through the network. You can share files with your workers, consult documents online outside your home, use it as a multimedia server, as a backup disk for your photos, etc …

It may interest you:

The 5 best storage and backup options if you work at home as a freelancer, freelance or telecommuting

1.-Western Digital Elements Desktop 3.0 ā€“ 4TB external dessert hard drive

Western Digital Elements Desktop 3.0 - Disco duro externo de 3 TB

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An excellent option to keep all your data safe: it is fast, very reliable, and its cost / storage capacity is very good.

It has a really low failure rate, USB 3.0, and is capable of transferring a two-hour HD movie in just three minutes. The read / write speed is about 110 MBps. You have this 4TB model and another 6TB.

  • Perfect for making backups of your computer and save all your work.

2.-Seagate Backup Plus Hub – 6 TB Desktop External Hard Drive (2 USB ports, 3.5 ā€³, USB 3.0)

Seagate Backup Plus Hub - Disco duro externo de sobremesa de 6 TB (2 puertos USB, 3.5

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It has it in various capacities (up to 10TB), but this 6TB is very well priced. If you want a lot of storage, this is a great option.

It is compatible with Windows and Mac; Just install the NTFS driver for Mac and you can use it between Windows and Mac computers without formatting it.

It has two USB 3.0 ports on the front that allow you to recharge other USB devices, and with Seagate Dashboard software, you can schedule backups. It works very well and does not make any noise.

Read and write speed? Its read and write speed is around 180MB / sec.

  • Perfect for saving all your office data very quickly. You have it on your desktop and you backup everything.

3.- Samsung T5 SSD de 1TB

Samsung MU-PA1T0B, T5 Disco Estado SĆ³lido SSD Externo USB

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  • With a V-NAND flash memory and a USB 3.1 Gen 2 port
  • Offers a transfer speed of up to 540MB / s
  • It is smaller than a business card, weighing only 51 grams and measuring only 10.5mm thick.

Its price may not be suitable for everyone, but you may not find anything better. It has an all-metal design and tremendous security thanks to its encryption capabilities.

You have storage options from 250GB to 2TB with a maximum transfer speed of 540MB / s, a perfect speed to “play” with 4K videos and photos in high resolution. It has USB 3.1 Type C and Type A ports. Read and write speed? Tremendous, it can reach 540MB / sec.

  • Perfect for a freelance graphic designer or video editor.

4.-Western Digital My Cloud Home – NAS Network Storage

Western Digital My Cloud Home - Almacenamiento en Red NAS

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One of the easiest NAS to configure: directly from your Android or iOS smartphone through an app (WD Discovery). In this configuration you only have one hard disk that can be from 2TB to 8TB, but you have a model with 2 bays that has two disks that go up to 20TB storage (My Cloud Home Duo).

You can automatically backup photos and videos on your phone and via the USB 3.0 port you can import photos, videos and documents from USB flash drives and external hard drives.

It also has apps like PLEX, Dropbox, Google Drive to expand its streaming functions. It does not have FTP, SMB and other protocols that we expect to see in a NAS (the approach is different in this model: simplicity prevails). Their software is not as comprehensive as on the Synology or QNAP models.

  • Perfect NAS for those who do not want to complicate life installing hard drives.

5.-QNAP TS-251B NAS

QNAP TS-251B NAS

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An excellent NAS with very good performance and many connections, including an HDMI and several USB. The performance is very similar to the Synology DS218 +.

The disks are easily removed and the operating system is very polished. The QTS operating system allows you to easily install a range of applications, such as Plex Media Server or running Ubuntu Linux. It comes without hard drives.

It comes with a 14nm 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Celeron J3355 processor with 2GB / 4GB of DDR3L RAM (up to 8GB, comes with 4GB), a single Gigabit LAN port, and support for SATA hard drives up to 6Gb / s. It is equipped with AES-NI hardware accelerated encryption.

  • Qnap has just presented at CES 2020 the new model, the Qnap TS-251D: A 2-bay NAS with a 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Celeron processor with 2GB or 4GB of available RAM. Supports 4K HDMI output and PCIe expansion for SSD caching and 10GbE / 5GbE / 2.5GbE connectivity.

6.-Synology Diskstation DS218+

Synology Diskstation DS218+

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Another really good option that competes directly with the QNAP model. With either of the two you will not go wrong.

Synology’s operating system is the best you’ll find: it offers you the ability to install many apps, easily make backups, host your own website, or create a server in several easy steps. Almost everything you can do with Linux, you can do with this NAS.

It allows Ultra HD 4K video transcoding and has AES-NI hardware encryption.

It has Intel Celeron J3355 Dual Core 2 GHz CPU that offers up to 2.5 GHz, 2 GB DDR3L (expandable up to 6 GB), USB 3.0 ports, 1 GbE RJ-45 port and support up to 32 TB (16 TB drive x 2).

  • Another perfect NAS for teleworking at home and saving your data with redundancy.

7.-QNAP TS-453B o QNAP TS-453Be

QNAP TS-453B

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The perfect NAS for PLEX, virtual machines and for 4K (Supports 4K H.264 dual-channel hardware decoding and real-time transcoding.) And of course to make a backup of your data on 4 hard drives.

This model has an Intel Celeron J3455 processor, Quad-Core at 1.5 GHz, Intel HD Graphics 500 graphics card, 4 GB DDR3L RAM (expandable), internal capacity for 4 bays (you will be able to take advantage of everything that it offers a RAID configuration) and data transfer speeds of up to 225MB / s upload and download.

And best of all, it can be expanded with a QM2 QM2-2S-220A expansion card (or similar) to, for example, be able to add SSD disks for data cache.

The model QNAP TS-453Be It’s similar to this but without the front-end add-ons like the LCD screen, the USB-C port, or the SD card port – that’s why it’s cheaper.

  • Perfect for having multiple redundant backup copies of all your office data.

 

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