Nas Drive Enclosure
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I have a lot of NAS drives but they're all on the cheaper end of the spectrum and I wish I had spent more wisely.
Friends with Drobo swear by them and they run Plex and all sorts. Without looking I reckon they'll be above your range.
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I have 2 Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition NAS Drives - One 2TB and one 4TB. There's no RAID as they're single bays but they do the trick for streaming movies/tv around my house with no issues. I use XBMC and it'll play MKV,MP4 etc all in 1080p just fine.I also have 2 D-Link ShareCenter DNS-325, which were pricier as they're 2-Bay. I haven't installed FreeNAS or any custom firmware on them and they kinda suck. Basically large video files (400mb +) of certain types seem to corrupt when transferred to the drives as NAS. I've removed the drives and copied the same files locally to them and they copy fine. Something with the network transfer fucks them up though. I use these bays for Picture libraries and TV Shows just fine, but there is a risk element with the larger files.
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My most reliable budget-NAS is actually an old laptop of mine that had 2 internal hard drives and a DVD drive. I've gutted the DVd drive and used the spare SATA interface to turn it into a 3-bay 6TB NAS. The cost of the "enclosure" as it were was £10 for the extra SATA DVD interface, then the 2TB laptop drives.