Ah, I'm running out of space as well, and tight budget lately, high commitment.
Want to get the N40L but it's kind of hard to get locally here (Kuching, Sarawak), wonder if I purchase straight from HP, will it be cheaper?
Trying to find time to sort out some of my duplicate downloads as well . Organizing several hundreds of volumes (Anime series, OVA, movies) is time consuming, even with the Gigabit network.

Woah that's high end stuff! DIY route is pretty good these days, whatnot with the Synology firmware already ported for use on PC

Ah yes, duplicate files everywhere is one of the reason Im getting this NAS, its really a mess now, some files on the laptop, some one ext HDD, some on the PC, until there have been times I thought I deleted something, only to find out I have a copy of it somewhere after redownloading it

Must make sure that from the start I make sure theres no duplicate

It's hard to keep track after a long years of downloads, and the downloads just keep on coming and... you know... they just never ends, LOL....
And to archive means I will compare qualities, keep only the best, so the size just keep on accumulating (obviously).
I wonder about the space in my room as well after another few years.

Synology
Single Core 1.2 GHz
512 MB DDR3

Thecus
Intel® Atom™ SoC CE5315 Dual Core(1.2GHz Dual Core )
1GB DDR3

Dont know which one should I take.People say that synology software is the best.Dont know about thecus

Yes, Synology & possibly QNAP has been known for their firmware support and each update bring some improvement and sometimes added features so it's worth pay for the extra $$. Lots of reviews/benchmark on most of their models as well.
Thecus , rarely heard name, lol.. guess I'm still beginner in the NAS section, I just uses PC as NAS only.

Ya,thats what make me thinking.I read most of old review of thecus only say they chose synology anytime but now with dual core with same price as synology single core,make me confuse which one to choose

Promise is the best now.
Promise makes the best scsi card and been around the market for ages.
NAS is new but they are good for it

Thecus and synology hardware development is good but the software is not, it can work when you have properly written firmware.

This post has been edited by simonyee: Aug 21 2013, 09:52 AM