Choosing the Best 8-Bay NAS Drive of 2020
Hasn’t data storage come a long, LONG way! In just a hand full of years we have gone from the marvels of having gigabytes in our pocket to being able to store hundreds of terabytes on our own home servers! Network Attached Storage (NAS) has been improving year on year and although the hardware power inside and the performance outside has changed more and more, the general demands of what the end-user wants have changed very little. Most NAS users (especially business users, but Prosumers too) want a robust, solid and reliable storage system that is easy to use, does what it promises and is a solid investment for the future. Alot of businesses have slight hesitation moving away from 3rd party cloud services and a monthly subscription, but when they do, it is almost always a desktop solution and almost always an EIGHT drive solution. 8-Bay NAS (and indeed DAS – Direct Attached Storage) give a little bit of everything, they provide:
- Good balance of Day 1 to day 1000 of storage, which plenty of ways to add more later
- Good level of internal hardware to keep data moving for multiple users
- Good level of brand support, as an 8-Bay is a business-class solution
- Good level of Software support, as it is at this level that faster processors, more memory and better connectivity are always available
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