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    Synology DS710+ Mini-Review and Performance

    Well, I believe those 100MB/s write speeds are buffered writes. It's a raid1 volume, so the NAS has to write the data to both drives, which means, the speed is limited by the physical write speed of those HDD-s you used - except, when writes are buffered. The onboard 1GB RAM must have helped a...
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    Is Windows-based NAS a solution ?

    Why do you want to stream your media? Why don't you just share your files using NFS? Your Popcorn will see them perfectly.
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    Mirroring two drives separately in the same NAS?

    I have a Synology DS409 which supports multiple raid1 volumes as well. Since Synology provides (almost) the same firmware functionality for their entire product line, i think all their 4+ bay NAS-es are capable of working with multi raid1 volumes. I'm curious though, why do you prefer...
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    Buying Advice - 5/5 Bay NAS $600-$800

    Perhaps you can also take a look at the Synology DS509+ model. It has 2 gigabit ethernet ports like the QNAP, and about the same feature set, but it's a 5 bay model. And it's expandable by a DX5 unit, so you can ultimately have a 10 bay storage. It's worth to mention, that the DS409/409+...
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