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Everything that decides a NAS purchase: bays and RAID, the filesystem, RAM ceilings, ECC, and whether the box locks you to one drive brand. The lead category on this site.

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Glossary terms

NAS
Network-attached storage — a dedicated file server on your network.
RAID 0/1/5/6/10
Ways to combine drives for speed, redundancy, or both.
SHR
Synology Hybrid RAID — flexible redundancy across mixed drives.
ZFS
A copy-on-write filesystem with checksums, snapshots, and self-healing.
Btrfs
A copy-on-write Linux filesystem used by many NAS appliances.
ECC RAM
Error-correcting memory that catches single-bit flips.
Hot-Swap Bay
A drive slot you can change without powering down.

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