You don't need all the bells and whistles to have an effective Cloud Backup. It took a bit of doing to get it running, the drive build and intranet network speeds are excellent. I can connect an external 3.5/5G NIC but thus far, no need. It runs great, just using a pair of older 500GB drives in RAID1 and it's speeds and access times are fantastic. The 2 GB of RAM beats the hell out of competitor's 1GB solutions and while it's a bit sluggish on some apps (that normally require 4GB or more) they do function. I have it firewalled, CLAM AV protected and with Malware screening. Using it as a personal cloud backup for my phone, for my Fiancée's phone and for our files and photos on PC too. Much faster than any cloud service available and super cheap to maintain. Using old drives that were collecting dust for online storage that would cost hundreds of dollars a year to maintain. Taiwan based company so the security is solid and the network is secure.I wanted the 2.5 Gig version (my internal network is all 2.5/5/10Gig Switches and NICs but I'm satisfied with 1G transfers. It's faster than the reviews online about it (maybe because my internal network is WIRED) because I'm not using it as a wifi NAS. All Hardwired. Can't beat what I paid for it. 169 Open Boxed (never used), I will buy this again.Minimum investment for maximum gain. RAID 1 is solid and took a couple hours to synchronize (2) for 500GB, so expect massive sync times if you go up to the maximum supported drives (18GB per drive).