Looking for cheap 4 bay NAS, advice?

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So my current NAS for holding all my Plex content is a Zyxel NAS326 with 2 8TB drives in it, running in RAID 1. However, I’m running out of space fast (95% capacity, yikes) and need to upgrade soon. I was considering getting another NAS326 and shoving some 8TB drives in it, then moving some files around so there’s space on both, but I thought it might be easier to get a new 4 bay NAS and fill that with drives, then configure in RAID 1, 5 or 10 (most likely 5, I feel a lot more comfortable having redundancy on my server in case things go awry). Yes, just getting another NAS326 would be cheaper, and I’ll probably end up doing that in the end. But I just wanna see what my options are, cause RAID 5 is really tempting. 24TB… it’s almost drool-inducing.
So I’m looking for a cheap 4 bay NAS. Under $200 if possible. Trying not to break the bank here.

Thanks in advance!

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Build your own NAS.
Get a cheap CPU or use your own
Get a bunch of cheap external HDDs.
Use StableBit DrivePool to manage all the HDDs instead of RAID.

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I use something similar to this…

https://www.amazon.com/ICYCube-MB561U3S-4S-R1-External-Enclosure/dp/B01GUB2Z0K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469127290&sr=8-1&keywords=mb561u3s

In combination with unraid.

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