Best 4 bay NAS

[Morbeas]

I'm looking to upgrade my ReadyNAS Duo and go to a 4 bay device. I also need it to be compatible with the 3 TB WD Green drives. (model WD30EZRSDTL)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[ntm1275]

How much are you looking to spend, and where are you in the world, so that we can quote relevant prices?

 

[Morbeas]

I'd like to stay below $1000 if I can and I'm in NY.

 

[ntm1275]

I know the Synology range of NAS's are compatible with the new 3TB drives, namely the Western Digital WD30EZRS-11J99B0 ($200) and Seagate ST33000651AS (no prices)

Prices are from NewEgg and do not include hard drives

Models to choose from Synology
DS411j - 1.2GHZ CPU 128MB RAM - $350
DS410 - 1.06GHz CPU 512MB RAM - $500 (may soon to be replaced with the DS411, which I expect to have a 1.6GHz CPU and 512MB RAM)
DS411+ - 1.67 GHz dual core CPU 1GB RAM - $630
DS1511+ - 1.8GHz dual core 1GB RAM - $870 - this is actually a 5 bay model which can be expanded with up to 2 x Synology's DX510 expansion units, giving a possible 15 total drives

I was going to list QNAP's 4 bay models, but after looking at their web site, they don't appear to support the new 3TB drives yet

 

[kamina]

Regarding the previous listing, the cpu architechtures are completely different, so don't take the clock speeds as an indicator on performance. The 1.06ghz processor in the 410 should be quite a bit faster then the 1.2ghz in the 411j. The 411+ and 1511+ are x86 cpu's and significantly faster then the other two.