Easy to use NAS? Trouble with file loading


Hi all,
I've been using a WD MyCloud for a couple of years. I still buy CDs, rip them on my desktop, then transfer to the NAS with File Explorer. This is a very laborious and time consuming process which does not always work the same way twice. The W10 pc with a usb storage device is connected to my router with ethernet, as is the NAS, and recently a transfer of a moderate sized set of files failed multiple times over the course of several hours until I canceled the job. I find it incomprehensible that WD does not have a basic file transfer dialog that comes with the HW. I'm tired of screwing with it.

Do any of you use a NAS which is easy to copy files into? Or a simple to use recommended process other than file explorer?

Thanks
C
128x128cmjones

Showing 1 response by dgarretson

My experience with a QNAP NAS is that large batch files transferred from an external hard drive through USB interface will move an order of magnitude faster with the USB-attached hard drive direct-connected to the NAS, rather than connected to a Windows computer and onward through Ethernet to the NAS.
However, smaller files, such as a single rip of a CD or SACD file on a Windows PC, transfer quickly and reliably from PC to a NAS via wireless or wired Ethernet.