need advice on buying my first NAS

[jk132221]

im looking for a NAS under $400
currently i have a raid box with two 2TB in raid 1
im looking to start using a NAS to share my files/movies across the network (light workload stuff)

has to be easy to use and has really good future support (updates etc), has 4 or more hard drive 3.5 bays
ill start with two 4TB drives and maybe then populate the other two bays with 6TB both at raid 1

after searching i came across the following NASes
Thecus N5550
Thecus N4560

Synology DS414j

WD My cloud EX4

QNAP TS-420

all the above are around the same price

thank you

 

[stevech]

im looking for a NAS under $400
currently i have a raid box with two 2TB in raid 1
im looking to start using a NAS to share my files/movies across the network (light workload stuff)

has to be easy to use and has really good future support (updates etc), has 4 or more hard drive 3.5 bays
ill start with two 4TB drives and maybe then populate the other two bays with 6TB both at raid 1

after searching i came across the following NASes
Thecus N5550
Thecus N4560

Synology DS414j

WD My cloud EX4

QNAP TS-420

all the above are around the same price

thank you

Consider a 2-bay - much less costly.
RAID: It is NOT a backup. Some people choose, in a 2 bay, to use two larger capacity drives and run them as independent volumes, non-RAID. RAID can help in NAS/DAS that have large numbers of drives. I believe that most consumer uses are met with 2 bays PLUS a large capacity USB3 external drive to backup the NAS.
My recommendation is either Synology or QNAP. They specialize in NASes and have the best software. There are many other NASes - most of which have been review at this web site's main page (not this forum).
Try the on-line demo from the vendors above.
Opinion: Avoid mass marketed half-baked NASes from Seagate, WD, LG, Buffalo, and stick with one of the above. And don't over-buy, esp. on your first. 4TB drives are hard to backup and kind of bleeding edge and $$. Maybe one in the external USB3.

 

[jk132221]

Consider a 2-bay - much less costly.
RAID: It is NOT a backup. Some people choose, in a 2 bay, to use two larger capacity drives and run them as independent volumes, non-RAID. RAID can help in NAS/DAS that have large numbers of drives. I believe that most consumer uses are met with 2 bays PLUS a large capacity USB3 external drive to backup the NAS.
My recommendation is either Synology or QNAP. They specialize in NASes and have the best software. There are many other NASes - most of which have been review at this web site's main page (not this forum).
Try the on-line demo from the vendors above.
Opinion: Avoid mass marketed half-baked NASes from Seagate, WD, LG, Buffalo, and stick with one of the above. And don't over-buy, esp. on your first. 4TB drives are hard to backup and kind of bleeding edge and $$. Maybe one in the external USB3.

thank you for the info
in the start i wanted to get a raid box (DSM) but what was available was re-badged stuff that had bad reviews
i wanted then to go buy a gen 3 drobo which is basically a DSM but from what im reading its using a proprietary file system and un configurable raid setup - they are using their own implementation

anyways
i need a 4 bay NAS because i am gaining data pretty fast
i currently have two 2TB drives in raid 1 and 2.5TB in various hard drives that might fail at any moment

i couldnt find a direct answer to this (synology)
is it possible to create two raid volumes i mean lets say i got 4 hard drives
i want two 4TB drives in raid one and another two in raid 1
EDIT
found the answer (its possible)
http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=165&t=50779