[hewligun]

You could also pickup a 4 bay Synology for around $370:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008U69LC4...-1&pi=SL75

If you don't need to do plex transcoding than its a pretty turn key setup.

I was looking at synologies but it was a higher model. I can probably skip plex and do pi's but iops I do care about. seems the higher up models only do well in iops.

[cpmiller22]

What are your requirements? The DS413j performance specs show 108MB/sec on a 5gb file which is pretty good. The other thing I like about moving to a nas and small appliance based players (atom HTPC and atv2) is the notable decrease in my power bill :-)

[PobjoySpecial]

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