Well Last year I was looking for a Nas appliance to store backups on, and I found the Netgear Ready Nas 1100. I have been using this appliance for about 1 year and I can say it is great. [ad#Adsense-4] The ready Nas comes in either bare bones where you add the drives or it comes in 1, 2, 3 , 4 Tera bye configurations. The drives that come with the Ready Nas are Segate. The Ready Nas was evaluated on 4 principle areas, ease of management, performance/Reliability and feature set. Ease of Management - The Nas is almost plug an play. Simply connect it to your network and it will get a DHCP address and then use the RAIDar utility that ships with it to do the initial configuration. Once that is complete you can fully manage [+]