NAS Recommendation?

Was wondering if anyone can recommend any NAS for SOHO that they are using and are happy with? Or can you recommend any functions/features when looking for a SOHO?

The only thing requirement that I have is looking for some sort of RAID 5/6 setup.

These are the two right now that I'm kicking the tires the most on:

Amazon.com: BUFFALO DriveStation Quad 8 TB High Performance RAID Array with Optimized Hard Drives (HD-QH8TU3R5): Computers & Accessories

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G4JZ42A?colid=6EZX78W2XZZ3&coliid=I2MSWRQUAUAGSN&psc=1&ref_=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl

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cs8400

Looked into FreeNAS or NAS4Free? I've had a pleasant experience with both. If you're considering building your own they are worth checking out. Buying a NAS out right, I've had good luck with Qnap and Synology products.

SteveLord

We've used UnRAID in the office and its okay.

kohr-ah

For hardware devices I use Synology myself and in smaller companies have used them also. No complaints about them at all.
Little more expensive but great devices.

tpatt100

I had a Synology, it was pretty good but I ended up just using Windows 8 on a PC in the basement for media/file sharing. Only thing I would advise is investing in good hard drives. I tried to be cheap and I think my drive choices impacted performance of my Synology.

iBrokeIT

I own two QNAP NAS devices, a TS-469-PRO and TS-853-PRO. Both have been rock solid and QNAP is very quick to patch their firmware against vulnerabilities.

SMB shares, iSCSI/NFS datastores, Plex and a few small services are what I use on mine.

TR4V1STY

The small MSP that I work for just switched from Iomaga NASs to Synologys.

They seem easy to use and are cost effective.

JockVSJock

I picked up WD My Cloud EX4 with 4 2 TB drives.

Their documentation doesn't go into great detail. For example, it comes out of the box at RAID 5, however I want to set it to RAID 10. Except it gives the option to set spaning, however it doesn't offer and pros/cons on how much to set.

scaredoftests

I like LaCie. I have had two buffalos that died within 2 years.