NASing around

I've had the Synology NAS for half a week now. So far I'm happy with it.That's actually very high praise.Like any product it has a couple of rough edges, but I'm happy.Good things:

• Easy setup! Pop in the drives and it works.
• No reliability problems at all. This (as it should be) has been rock solid.
• Fast. I regularly get over 50MB/s over GB ethernet. I've seen over 2K IOPS at peak usage. As I'm writing this I'm moving over a VM and I'm seeing a consistent 85MB/s write speed.
• Quiet and cool. I value peace and quiet quite a bit.
• Runs Linux and can ssh into it.
• Expandable.
• Lots of packages I can add on.
• n+1 reliability.
• Multi-user that works better than my iMac.

Bad things:

• Accessing a shit-ton of small files over a network share is slow. I don't think this is a fault of the device though, it's just the way network shares tend to work.
• Indexing and searching seems janky.

I was able to get around the small file thing (which only really comes up with bulk transfers) by using rsync so the big use-case there is completely mitigated.I'm sure I'll have more to say, but these are my first impressions of this box.I rather like it.