We have surveyed the single drive NAS market and provide results for the best NAS 1 bay devices. We take into account the customer reviews for these NAS boxes as well as their popularity when choosing what products to present.
Picture | Name | Description | Rating | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Synology DiskStation 1-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage DS112 (White) | This single bay Synology NAS comes in both diskless form and with a disk already installed (as an option). CPU: 1.6GHz w/ Hardware Encrypted Engine RAM Size: 256MB DDR3 Internal HDD: 1x 3.5" or 2.5" SATA2 Max Internal Capacity: 4TB (1x 4TB HDD) External HDD Interface: 2x USB 3.0 Ports; 1x eSATA Port LAN: 1x Gigabit | 4.4 | $$ |
 | QNAP TS-120 Marvell 1.6GHz CPU 512MB RAM USB 3.0/1-Bay Personal Cloud NAS with DLNA, Mobile App and iSCSI | QNAP's one drive offering gets rave reviews. Multi-window, multi-tasking GUI Data storage, backup, sharing and disaster recovery Rich multimedia applications for entertainment Dropbox-like file synchronization | 5.0 | $$ |
 | Synology America DiskStation 1-Bay Diskless Network Attached Storage (DS114) | Little brother of the Synology DS 214, this is one powerful single bay NAS. CPU with Floating-Point Unit Enabling Fast Multimedia Processing 512MB RAM for increased Multi-Tasking Power Features Super Speed USB30 Quiet and Smart Cooling Quick and Easy System Installation Running on Sinology Disk Station Manager (DSM) | 4.7 | $$ |
 | BUFFALO LinkStation Live 3 TB Network Attached Storage (NAS) - LS-X3.0TL | Buffalo's line of NAS is very popular. This NAS has a great price for a single bay NAS with a 3 TB drive included. | 3.0 | $ |
 | WD My Cloud 4TB Personal Cloud Storage - NA | Another extremely economical line of NAS storage comes from Western Digital. This NAS comes with a 4 TB drive included for about the same price as other manufacturers' diskless models. | 3.4 | $ |
Best NAS 2014
Choosing between the best NAS servers available can be difficult especially with such leading makers represented in the 1 bay NAS category such as Synology, QNAP, Buffalo and Western Digital. Synology NAS servers are usually thought to have the best software available in dedicated NAS boxes - Synology's DSM. QNAP is reputed to make some of the best NAS hardware. Western Digital devices are usually considered to be no frills boxes - but they are relatively inexpensive and still get the job done for normal file serving and media serving.
Personally, I have been fond of Synology NAS servers for a long time. I usually choose Synology if my budget allows.
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