Does this nas device come equipped with all four drives installed ready to use? Or will I need to purchase the drives separate?

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The unit I ordered was delivered with 4 drives installed.  They were pre-configured in a RAID5 setup, and the network was pre-configured for DHCP so it came up on my network immediately.  It does take 10 minutes to boot up completely which is a bit troublesome the first time you wait that long.  The 8TB number is a little misleading in that 1/4 of the space is used for parity and a TB is not really a TB.  Actual capacity in Windows is reported as 5.8 TB, still plenty of space for most of us.

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