Pros: cost, looks, ease of setup.

Cons: imbedded memory not upgradeable, the white noise of the fans could be a bit objectionable

The Bottom Line: If you need a NAS today get the NS4300n, Let the market mature a year and let the hardware mature or in my opinion you'll be sorry later.

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Pros: Array reconstruction works properly. Fast setup and use in simple network. Temperature remains low

Cons: Hardware is good, software could be better. Can't set the SMTP port for notifications.

The Bottom Line: For home/small networks it's a good choice. May not be as good for fine-grained user management or AD/NIS.

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Pros: cheap, easy to set up (to a point), nice package integration

Cons: proprietary format, file deletion takes long time, fan noise too loud

The Bottom Line: It's nice and cheap, works (kinda), has a lot of features, but a few design flaws keeps it from being the ultimate NAS.

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Pros: Smart hardware design.

Cons: Broken and buggy software. Incomplete features touted as selling points in marketing literature.

The Bottom Line: Broken, incomplete software. Promise of Active Directory compatibility is a lie.

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Pros: Cannot think of 1. Don't waste money.

Cons: No Support, No Logs, Nothing really works beyond the basic file sharing.

The Bottom Line: Lack of necessary features and no technical support. Not worth it.

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