Reddit mentions of WD Diskless My Cloud EX4100 Expert Series 4-Bay Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBWZE0000NBK-NESN,Black

Are the WD ones any good? Still not cheap, but you'd think they would know how to make a quality product.

https://www.amazon.com/EX4100-Diskless-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00TB8XMR0/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&qid=1494012106&sr=8-26&keywords=western+digital+8tb

Probably $200-$350 for decent NAS hardware and another $200-$300 for HDDs

2TB HDDs are about $50, or $70 for WDD blues.

NAS hardware:

WD My Cloud EX4100 Diskless Expert Series 4-Bay Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBWZE0000NBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TB8XMR0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_W4wyyb4NPJDKP

2TB HDD, $72ea:

WD Blue 2TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD20EZRZ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013QFRS2S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Z-wyyb10ME7NY

You could also opt for the ultrastar refurbished drives, at about $69 for 3tb each, people have good luck with them as Hitachi (HGST) drives are crazy reliable for data centers.

Also if you're really savy you could build your own NAS for not to much - YouTube has plenty of tutorials.

When it comes to storage, I'm a big western digital fan. If you're going for USB Specific and want to support more than one drive, something like this may be good:

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBLWE0040JCH-NESN/dp/B00KU68A1A

You can swap out the drives and it supports a couple of different RAID configurations so that you can configure it for either speed, or mirroring the drives for data consistency or something else.

You're not going to be able to get anything really portable that supports a RAID configuration that allows you to just ADD drive space (RAID 5, for example) because they typically require at least 3 drives to handle striping and such.

IF you wanted to configure a Network Attached Storage device (NAS), you may be looking at a little more cash, and the device itself will be larger, but it can be accessed via a network (or even the internet if you configure it that way) so that you can access it from anywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/EX4100-Diskless-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00TB8XMR0

These typically also support different RAID configurations that may actually allow you to just add drives at your leisure.

If you seriously just want something to drop some music or pictures or something like that on, you can get a fairly inexpensive solution and just upgrade that solution at a later date if you wish to do so. https://www.amazon.com/Passport-Essential-Portable-External-Pacific/dp/B0041OSAZI

Good luck, hope that helps.

>(Linux) Western Digital MyCloud Ex4 is no longer supported (Its ARMv5).

I almost bought one of those WDC MyCloud EX4 units.
First available on Amazon, February 2015. Their product page still on Amazon still touts Plex support. I don't care it supports ARM5. You knew that last year. I'm super glad I built my own server now instead of buying a low powered pre-canned setup like this. Bad risk for a long term investment.

I can see one if my colleagues saying that and forcing all the customers to either migrate, upgrade, or find another company.

Amazon link to product http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TB8XMR0/

If I was needed to get a NUC, would it make just as much sense to upgrarde to something like this? https://www.amazon.ca/WD-Expert-Diskless-Processor-WDBWZE0000NBK-NESN/dp/B00TB8XMR0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1491416378&sr=8-2&keywords=wd+nas My goal is to have another PC just for this, but for now thats not an option.