Don't forget that RAID1 does not equal two discs. You can have as many discs as you want in you RAID1 array, adding more hardware redundancy.
It's sometimes tricky though to identify what NAS or RAID devices will properly support RAID 1 across more then 2 drives, vs a RAID 1+0 or 0+1 setup.
Peter, do you plan on using a Linux machine to read the disks at some point, or an ext3 driver for another OS? In the case of the ReadyNAS devices, the data should be readable when attached to a Linux machine with LVM support. Reason I bring it up is that some of the ext3 drivers for other OSes can't read partitions inside an LVM container.
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