1st NAS

[Enquiries]

Hi. I’m mainly a Mac user and about to upgrade my Mac hardware. Their storage is quite expensive when speccing a product hence the thought of having a NAS system which would benefit not only me, but also my wife. Been watching a lot of your videos, and the products which I’m gravitating towards is the QNap,TS 464-8g or the Synology DS 1522+. Multimedia is important to me and the idea of ripping blu- rays onto a NAS drive to play anywhere is appealing (QNap) but the more user friendly and more secure software of the Synology is less scary! So question is, which would be the one would suit my needs more and offer the most future proofing as time moves on. A couple of additional questions,

Can I hot swap hard drives when I need to replace or upgrade without data loss
Can I mix different capacities within the NAS bays
Can Drobo be considered as an option?

Many thanks in advance

Rich