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I'd avoid QNAP if at all possible. For one thing, this sort of thing (NAS) is a dime a dozen and there are many more that are at least as good which cost a tiny fraction of what a QNAP costs.
But, you say, these are "enterprise-level NAS" thingies. Wait until you have a problem with one of them and then you will learn that they are cheap pieces of junk like all the rest of them.
I have a model that is just slightly out of date, like this one. 13 months after I bought it from Newegg it started to act erratically, and one of my hard disks died. This was because the supplied power brick was a total POS, and it supplied inadequate power to the HD, which ultimately ruined it.
I called the QNAP tech support, and spoke with a couple of knowledgeable people, who told me that they had supplied these things with bad power supplies by accident, however my QNAP was 1 month out of warranty so it was my problem. They offered to sell me a new power supply for $75, even though they admitted they had sold me a defective one with the unit. I ended up finding a new one on ebay for about $13 instead.
But the unit overall was a total POS, which constantly locked me out and and became inaccessible, requiring the hard drives to be repeatedly reformatted and to have to restart from scratch. The firmware, which you can't alter, is complete crap, probably programmed by a monkey in Malaysia.
Either buy a cheap NAS for $50 and put your own hard drives in it, or get a Windows Home Server for about the price (or less) than this QNAP POS.
The 2-drive DLink DNS-323 is $100 at Amazon (after $40 MIR).