I've also got a 4-bay Synology (the 410), with four 2TB drives in RAID5 configuration, totalling about 5.6TB usable space. It has successfully recovered without data loss from a recent drive failure (as you'd expect from a RAID5). I also have an external 6TB drive connected to it via SATA and have the NAS run nightly incremental backups to it, to protect from wetware errors.
The NAS is very fast over our gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n WiFi.
Cheers
Steffen.
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