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OK, I am preparing to get a NAS drive. I've decided that I'd rather pay a bit more for more/better data reliability, so I've decided to go with one of the 4 bay units that support more than RAID 1. It seems that no one is completely happy with any of the consumer models. I briefly looked at the Buffalo Quad Pro which is half the price of the 2 mentioned above, but the reviews are moderate at best. Drobo and Synology both seem to have a fair amount of good reviews and a few bad/moderate reviews which these days at non-enterprise prices are probably the best that you could hope for.

Does anyone have any first hand experience with the Drobo FS which is a multibay, network attached drive that supports RAIDs 0, 1, 5 & 10 or the Synology Diskstation DS411 series which is similar to the above.

Also, I don't want to spend a fortune on drives. I'm thinking that I'll start with 4 x 2TB drives initially. Any recommendations on which drives would offer the best reliability?