At work we ended up getting a Qnap 459 Pro+. I have been very impressed with it thus far. It is faster than the DNS-323 by a very noticeable amount, and it is also very stable. The web panel for administering it is easy to use yet provides a load of features and options. But it is blazing fast compared to the DNS-323 box, for sure.
Physically it is built really well, has dual Gigabit LAN for load balancing, the drives can be hot-swapped and they have nice little sliding trays with locks, etc. Not earth-shattering features, but handy to have. You can configure the 4 bays to use all sorts of RAID setups (and/or save some slots for future expansion), and you can run an FTP server on it if you want. The DNS-323 did FTP, and we actually still have the DNS-323 set up as our FTP server at work as it was easier to leave it for that purpose only, and the relatively slow speed of that box won't matter for internet transfers as much.
Even little things like being able to come back after a power loss or be woken by magic packets can also save you some time if you access your network remotely. We had a power failure at work during that wind storm on Grey Cup Sunday, and the power was out for longer than my battery backup could handle. So everything else in the office came back when the power was restored, but the DNS-323 was dead in the water. I was the only person in town to power it back up, and the others needed to access it remotely early the next morning from Ontario... so I had to drive to work in the aftermath of that storm in the middle of the Grey Cup to press a button.
/cool story bro, but with my Qnap box (and probably most other newer types of NAS boxes), it would have saved me tonnes of time.
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