NAS & network storage

Network storage, built and populated

Enclosures and the drives that belong in them. We can supply the unit bare, or build it out with a redundant array, shares and scheduled backups configured before it reaches you.
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The list below comes from the in-repo sample catalogue rather than live inventory. Prices were checked against Canadian retail on the date shown per item; stock counts are placeholders, not real availability.

Enclosures

Every unit here is sold diskless. Pick drives below, or bring your own — we will tell you honestly whether they are suited to continuous operation.

Synology

DiskStation DS224+ (2-bay, diskless)

Two-bay DiskStation running DSM. Diskless, so pair it with a couple of NAS-rated drives in a mirror. The common first NAS for household backups, Time Machine targets and a media library.

  • 2 bays
  • 2 GB DDR4
  • 2 x 1GbE RJ45

Unverified: Exact CPU model and maximum raw capacity. The retailer listing said only "Intel Celeron 2 GHz" and described the bays as SAS, which is wrong for this unit. Confirm against the Synology datasheet before publishing this row.

$449.99

In stock

Synology

DiskStation DS423+ (4-bay, diskless)

Four-bay DiskStation with two M.2 NVMe slots for read and write cache. Four bays is the point where you can run a single-drive-redundant array and still grow it, which two bays never really allows.

  • 4 bays
  • 2 GB DDR4
  • 2 x 1GbE RJ45
  • NVMe cache

Unverified: Exact CPU model, and the 72 TB maximum capacity figure. Both came from retailer copy rather than the Synology datasheet.

$749.99

In stock

NAS-rated drives

Rated for continuous operation and for the vibration of sitting next to three other spinning drives. A desktop drive in a NAS bay is a false economy.

No NAS-rated drives are listed yet.

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Before you buy

What actually matters here

The things worth knowing before spending money, including where the expensive option is not the better one.

RAID is not a backup

A mirror survives a dead drive. It does not survive a deleted folder, ransomware, a failed power supply taking both drives with it, or a house fire. Plan a copy that leaves the building; we will set the schedule up with the unit.

Buy CMR drives, not SMR

Shingled drives rewrite neighbouring tracks to commit a write, which collapses their performance during a RAID rebuild — the one moment the array is already vulnerable. Every drive we list for NAS duty says which it is.

Two bays is a mirror; four bays can grow

With two bays your only redundant option is a mirror, and expanding means replacing both drives. Four bays lets you run single-drive redundancy and add capacity later, which is usually the cheaper path over the unit’s life.

Usable capacity is well under the sticker

Four 8 TB drives with single-drive redundancy give roughly 21 TiB usable, not 32 TB: redundancy takes a drive, and the decimal-to-binary conversion takes about 9% more. Work from the usable figure when sizing.