Of course I was talking about the cost for just the enclosure, without the disks. And about Readynas, Synology, Qnap and Thecus. All the others just don't count. All forementioned brands offer enclosures that do 90 MB/S in price ranges of +/- $500.

If you consider diskless $500 NAS'es no longer 'consumer range', that's another discussion.
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