Settled on a Cyberpower 1350 from Costco $100 cheap. UPS is also connected to NAS via USB and NAS Power panel is showing that it would run 1:32hrs with the current load and battery at 100% of charge. Was very surprised at how easy the UPS was to set up...like most things you don't know about...it was easier than I worried it would be.
Now I feel comfortable with leaving it on...I've only used the NAS as a RAID 5 archive box. Since I didn't have it hooked up to a UPS was afraid to leave it on after backups.
What should a NAS neophyte tackle as the first app to install??? iPhone backup...Lusted over a buddies JRiver music server setup...hmmm
well im sorry i didnt see your earlier post. i do IT for a living
What NAS do you have ?Im unable to read you wrote QNAP. sorry
I installed Plex, mostly for the wife as it doesnt really do gapless playback, but for movies and TV shows and a bunch of other stuff i havent dug into its pretty cool. I think they charge a yearly subscription so not totally free
For tunes, depending on what room im in. In front of my PC in the office I use foobar2000 with just the library of all my crap on the NAS loaded in to different playlists. For the living room Ill use either Plex or Logictech Squeeze Server (sp?) feeding the amazon fire tv > HDMI to the receiver. For my main playback i have a logictech Squeezebox touch that gets the tunes from the squeeze server running on the NAS
Ill assume you setup the NAS to turnoff gracefully if it goes to battery power for extended outages ?
I use a synology NAS and many of their built in apps for audio, video , pictures etc are very well done with iPhone apps and amazon fire apps as well
Im more than happy to answer anything I can be of help with