10 Best Network Attached Storage for under $1000 for 2024

NAS or a network attached storage is a little networking computer intended to save mass quantities of data that can later be quickly distributed within many computers all joined into a particular interface. It is used in places where multiple companies collaborate, like an office.

What you should take into consideration if you are looking for good NSA are, first of all, diskless drives. A good NSA should have functional connectivity, it should process power at an excellent level, and the price, of course, should be the main thing to think about.

Here is a list of the best NSA out there for a price that goes from under $200 to $1200.

10. Western Digital 2TB My Cloud Personal NSA – $299.99

•    Home use
•    Connects your home with all the devices, like tablets, smartphones, etc.
•    PC and Mac computer compatible
•    Hard drive included
•    2 TB storage capacity
•    No expansion bays

9. Apple Time Capsule 2TB ME177LL/A – $349.99

•    5th Generation
•    Backup network for Apple devices
•    Separate external hard drive
•    Mac connectivity through USB
•    WiFi station
•    Ethernet connectivity and wireless capacity
•    Apple only
•    No array connectivity like in other NSA

8. Seagate 5TB Personal Cloud Home Storage Media – $899.28

•    Personal household use
•    5 TB HDD
•    Instant connection to smart devices
•    Secure back up from PC, Mac, iOs, Android
•    Secure URL sharing
•    1GB/LAN port
•    ChromeCast, Roku, Amazon Fire, Xbox One

7. Noontec-TerraMaster D5-300 Diskless Storage – $249.99

•    5-bay
•    10 TB in size, or 40 TB in combined hard disk storage
•    SSD
•    Aluminum alloy, built-in heat dissipation
•    Latest USB Type-C interface
•    USB 3.0 technology
•    Transfer up to 5GB
•    RAID
•    Requires buying a disk
•    Home use

6. Synology 2-Bay Network Attached Storage – $199.99

•    10 TB
•    16 TB external hard drive through USB
•    Dual-core 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron CPU delivers 2.48 GHz
•    4K UHD transcoding
•    RAID
•    Home and office use
•    From Roku to 4K television

5. ASUSTOR AS3204T 4-Bay Intel Quad-Core – $333.85

•    Commercial and private use
•    Intel Celeron 1.6 GHz quad-core
•    2GB of DDR3 RAM
•    32 TB
•    HDD installation – setup by smartphone
•    UHD playback support
•    Apple and OC compatible

4. QNAP TS-451 4-Bay Personal Cloud with Media Transcoding – $339.99

•    Diskless
•    2.41 GHz dual-core Intel Celeron
•    1GB upgradable memory
•    48 TB storage capacity
•    Full HD 1080p
•    7.1 channel surround sound – HDMI
•    Linux compatible only

3. Noontec-TerraMaster F5-420 NAS Server 5-Bay Intel Quad Core 2.0 GHz 2GB RAM Network RAID Storage – $1,140.30

•    Quad-core Intel Celeron 2.0 GHz
•    2 GB of DDR3
•    SATA 6 GB
•    2-inch/3-inch hard disk compatible
•    50 TB
•    Small business and private office use
•    Dropbox cloud sync
•    Aluminum alloy

2. QNAP TS-453A 4-Bay Professional-Grade NSA – $799.00

•    Diskless 4-Bay NAS
•    1.6 GHz quad-core Intel Celeron
•    8 GB of DDR3 RAM
•    SATA speed of 6 GB/s
•    AES-NI hardware encryption
•    4K hardware and video transcoding
•    Virtualization and surveillance station
•    Windows and Linux compatible
•    Dual HDMI output
•    Personal karaoke system
•    OceanKTV app

1. FreeNAS Mini – NAS – $999.00

(Best option)

•    8-core 2.4 GHz CPU
•    32 GB
•    48 TB
•    10 B Ethernet connection
•    Protection against data corruption
•    ZFS compression