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Top 12 Best Budget 2-Bay and 4-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosures.

Pros and Cons of RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5.

Should you need a quick guide, see the section below. Since you are considering a NAS enclosure, you would know some of these, the handy setup wizard will take you through deciding which best suits your need. The 4 bay NAS supports RAID-5 offering a balance between performance and security with part of each disk used for parity while data is written simultaneously over striped volume. Or, if you need security, it supports RAID-1, mirrored volume where the same data is written twice, one on each drive. The dual bay option gives better performance with RAID-0, striped volume where data is split and written simultaneously across two or more disks. It combines multiple physical disks into a single logical unit. NAS offers RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology for performance and/or redundancy. While there are cheaper single bay enclosures such as the Synology DS112j, DS 114, DS115j and DS115, ZyXEL NSA310S and QNAP TS-112P, TS-120 and TS-131, we focus primarily on 2 and 4 bay NAS. Apart from ZyXEL NSA310S, the prices of these single bay NAS are not very different compared to its’ 2 bay siblings. NAS are also a low cost option for businesses looking to back up their data either locally or remotely.

You can never have enough storage space for you data especially when capturing Full HD and 4K videos, snapping still photographs using High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode or RAW on the smartphone or DSLR and editing your own videos.

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