QNAP TS-451 4-Bay Personal Cloud NAS Overview

Home cloud storage has become more popular over the past few years, especially with the increased use of wireless devices in the home. When looking for wireless storage options, its often best to keep an eye on the different products on the market. One such product is the 4-Bay Personal Cloud NAS.

Specs
Dimensions: 6.97" x 7.09" x 9.25"
Weight: 6.61 lbs
Power Consumption: 31.07 W
Processor: 2.41 GHz Intel Celeron Processor
RAM: 1GB DDR3L RAM
Ports: USB 3.0 Ports, 2 USB 2.0 Ports, 2

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QNAP TS-431 4-Bay NAS

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The QNAP TS-431 is a network storage center that you can use to set up an entertainment center, file backup center, or remote access center either at home or at your place of work. This low/mid-price NAS

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Seagate 4-bay NAS Review

PCworld has a review of the Seagate 4-Bay NAS 16TB NAS (Model STCU16000100). This is a 4-bay NAS with four 4 GB seagate drives installed. The NAS is based on a dual-core Intel Atom C2338 CPU which provides very good performance.

Seagate has a version of RAID - "SimplyRAID" that provides the ability to mix and max drive sizes.

Performance was good:
Seagate’s 4-bay NAS with a dual-core Intel Atom C2338 CPU proved to be a good performer. It wrote our 10GB mix of files and folders at

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Synology and QNAP Recommended...Again

I found a forum thread at hardforum.com started by someone who was looking for a NAS suggestion. He didn't want to build a dedicated box (or reuse one) but wanted recommendations for a home NAS:
I would prefer a dedicated NAS unit over a re-purposed windows/linux box just from the standpoint of better integration of parts, smaller footprint/power requirements, and ease of maintenance so I'm wondering what the consensus is for finding something decent in the $500-$600 range with 4 bays and

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FreeNAS vs NAS4Free

A while back (I missed it at the time) Arstechnica had a "shootout" between two of the free NAS distributions - FreeNAS and NAS4Free. Both are (as stated) free and ready to run the ZFS advanced file system for rock solid data reliability.

FreeNAS is a rewrite of the original FreeNAS code, and NAS4Free is a derivative from the original code. So, both had the same origin, but have moved in radically different directions. Both are full featured NAS distributions capable of being run from a

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Drobo Launches Mini with 8 TB Preloaded

Drobo has introduced the Drobo Mini now with 8 TB of storage preloaded. For those who want massive storage in a small package - this is the one for you. The Drobo Mini with hard drives loaded only weighs in at about 3 pounds.

While not a NAS, but rather a direct attached storage device, the Mini sports USB 3 and Thunderbolt connectivity.

For more about the Mini, check out Drobo's product page.
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FreeNAS vs Dedicated NAS Hardware

There is an interesting thread over at Filesharingtalk.com about using a NAS as a media center. As many forum threads do, the discussion gets a bit off topic, but I found one post particularly interesting because it focuses on using a dedicated NAS from one of the major manufacturers such as Netgear, Synology or QNAP vs building your own and using a NAS software solution such as FreeNAS.

A couple of paragraphs from the post sums up the pros of using a dedicated NAS box:
The advantage of

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