NAS that's Windows PC and Mac compatible?

Hi All,
I'm brand new to the Mac world, I've never own a Mac of any kind before and I've played with one for a grand total of 10 minutes before deciding I want one. I ordered one last week and it should be here in a few days. I'm excited to say the least, but I have my anxieties that I'm sure will cause me to search this site frequently. Thanks to you guys, I've already answered quite a few questions; Pro Retina or Pro, Apple Care for Retina or no, Mac Air or no, Office or iWorks, etc.
I appreciate that.
My most current question that's been difficult to get answered from any site is, "What's a good affordable NAS or Personal Network Storage device that I can use with my MacBook Pro Retina and my fiance's Sony Vaio"?
I've been stuck on the MyBook Live 1TB thing for some time now, but I keep reading uncomforting customer reviews.
A buddy of mine suggested I get a router with the ability to attached an External HDD for sharing, but I'm not sure if the set up will allow streaming of content such as video, music or movies. I'd like to assume it would since I'd just open the music, video etc from the external HDD and it should play if i'm not mistaken, but I'm not certain.
Anyway any help will be appreciated.
Oh the reason why this is an issue is because I researched on this site how to build the MacBook Pro and it was the consensus that Speed and Memory were more important than storage if money was an issue. So I did just that and I only have a 256 GB SSD drive.
So I'm trying to make it an easy transition.
Thanks again
Respectfully,
Michael

Well, the wireless router works fine but the hub I'm not sure. The hub came with a cd rom that stated windows and didn't mention mac. I got it from Bestbuy and the Geek Squad said it will work. Am I just doing something wrong within my settings etc? It didn't sound complicated when I bought the equipment and the two PC's recognized the new hard drive through the hub right away.

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