NAS Drive that Works ?

Hello all
well I dont think my Buffalo Terastation will ever work with Mountain Lion as its SMBV1
Can I ask ? If your NAS is working and you can access shared drives through finder ; please can you tell me what you have ??
Also if it works with time machine or not would be great ....
There must be loads of us out there who has lost their NAS drives
Im just going to have to buy a new one !
Steve

Using a Synology Diskstation DS110J. Works like a charm with Mountain Lion (including 10.8.1). Running Diskstation Management Software 4. When turn on Western Digital TVLive box, media from the Diskstation shows up in Audio and Video menus on that device. Sit in my living room and smoothly stream videos from Diskstation to iPad-1 via 5Ghz 802.11n.
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