About VaultPick

An independent, spec-based guide to network-attached storage.

VaultPick is published by Informative Buy, a small independent business run by Gerardo Galicia in Venice, California. We built it because NAS units are still sold on brochure speed claims and marketing coverage language, while the consistently published figures — official installed memory, official onboard Ethernet, official CPU core count and official drive-bay count — sit on the maker's own specification tables. Here, every product is compared on those official published fields, scored with a formula printed on the page, and linked back to its sources.

Today the site covers 3 categories, 116 products and 33 head-to-head comparisons, from compact 1- to 3-bay desktop units to 4-bay towers and multi-bay desktop or rackmount NAS.

How we research

• Official manufacturer specification tables first. Scored specs come from official Synology, QNAP and ASUSTOR product specification pages and official catalog records. Each product lists the exact page we used.
• No guessing. If a figure isn't published, we show "Not listed" and score it at the lowest published value in the category, never as average.
• A transparent formula. Weights and scales are on every comparison and on our How we rank page.
• Honest about limits. Our comparisons are research-based. We don't claim hands-on lab testing, and we don't publish made-up reviews, ratings or prices.

How we make money

VaultPick participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. When you buy through a "Check price" button, Amazon may pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions never change the order of a ranking, and no brand can pay for placement. Details are in our affiliate disclosure.

Corrections

Manufacturers update products and spec sheets. If you spot an outdated figure, a broken source or a product we should add, please tell us and we'll fix it.

Find us

• Email: tutormeai3@gmail.com
• Location: Venice, California, USA