Will Apple ever create a NAS-solution?

Hey.
I am currently looking for a NAS-solution for my Mac-home. I have found a NAS-server with great Mac-compatibility, but before I invest in this I wanted to check with you guys...
Is Apple really never going to develop a NAS-server? So far, the best Mac NAS-solution I have found is AppleTV with external hard drives and aTV Flash :S
Can anybody enlighten me on the question, please?
Best regards,
Jesper

I wrote this in another thread but it might be useful for you as well so cutNpaste:
As far as I can see, Synology does not support HFS(+) formatted USB drives allthough they have promised this since at least 2009.(ref their forum)
QNAP does support it (allthough its reported a bug if a folder only contains .mov files)
I like the Synology 3.1 web-interface better than QNAP`s and you will get a 4 bay NAS cheaper from Synology than QNAP. Still I would choose QNAP and it looks like the QNAP ts-412 is the best choice if you want a home NAS (abt $300 without disks). From Synology I would probably go for the 411j (abt $230 ex disks), the new 410.
I would strongly recommend a 4 bay NAS instead of 2 bay since you then can use RAID 5 which gives redunancy but only "stealing" 25 % of storage instead of 50%
Another top tip is not to use WD Green disks or any other Eco disks. They have a tendancy to fail or/and make a lot of trouble in Linux based systems (which they are all based on) in RAID. (ref all forums from NAS builders)

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