NAS
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Drobo and Synology are probably the easiest to to expand with, but they cost more than a simple NAS. Unlike normal RAID systems, they both take any size drives and build a single disk volume that you can hot swap bad drives in and out of. Windows Home Servers have(had) this feature too, but an upcoming update removes this feature for some stupid reason.
If you don't care about having a backup/raid solution you can get any cheap single drive offering.
At the least, if I were getting a NAS, I'd want something with 2 drives that were mirrored drives in case one fails. Ideally, you'd like 4+ drives but it all depends on how much disk space you want and how much money you want to spend.
Finally watch for network speed. I know Dlink makes 2 different NAS . I believe one is 100mbit and one is 1000mbit ethernet, so if you have a place with gigabit ethernet you'll want to make sure you get a NAS that supports that (or the fastest Wireless network you will be using if that's the case)