NAS or Router + USB Hard Drive

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Gawd
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Looking for a solution to save mp3s, and pictures/videos of our daughter in one centralized location. My wife and I have our own laptops, so data is scattered across them. I've read about some of the NAS having proprietary software etc. and I was thinking that just using a router with a USB port and third party firmware like tomatousb or dd-wrt might be a better idea. Any thoughts?
 
Depending on budget and avalible resources depends on what you should get. Also are your laptops Mac PC or Linux?

My Knee-jerk reaction would be a Synology DS211 with 2 2TB drives in RAID 1 however that may be above your budget.
 
A dedicated NAS(something super simple would be fine) would be the better solution.
 
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