I've heard you need a UPS to protect a NAS from power outages. Is that true? Also, can someone tell me if it's better to wire up the whole house with ethernet, or will wifi do the trick? Don't wanna lose those precious family memories to a power surge or …

The limitation about real-time data is an interesting one. Is there any way to update the model more frequently or like plug it into a real-time database or will that just confuse it more?