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If all you want is a backup solution, just go for USB and use the computer it is connected to to "pull" the data from the various machines. Centralized management is a good thing.
If you want to step up to a NAS and centralized storage, I really like the Synology products. Of course at that point the NAS is no longer the backup, it is the source. You'll need to backup it to somewhere else (USB drive on a workstation). So it doesn't actually fix the problem you have at all.
If you want to step up to a NAS and centralized storage, I really like the Synology products. Of course at that point the NAS is no longer the backup, it is the source. You'll need to backup it to somewhere else (USB drive on a workstation). So it doesn't actually fix the problem you have at all.