I tested the BeeStation when it came out last year, and liked the idea of the product. It distils the fundamentals of a NAS into an easy-to-use device that comes with an integrated hard drive, and it exceled at backing up photos, videos, and documents.
The biggest issue with the BeeStation was that it didn't have any way to stream media, limiting its usability significantly. Thankfully, Synology is addressing that with the introduction of the BeeStation Plus; it shares the same design and feature-set as the standard model, but comes with an 8TB hard drive, and you get the ability to install Plex, turning it into a centralized media server.
