Enterprise NAS appliance recommendations?
12 May 2009, 01:42 PM
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Enterprise NAS appliance recommendations?
Hi,
I'm after a NAS for use at work and need either 2TB or 4TB, subject to price.
I need it run at least RAID5, but RAID10 would be nice.
I also need it to have redundant power supplies.
I've seen a few like the Buffalo TeraStation Pro II 4TB (4 * 1TB HDD, which will give me enough space in RAID5), but lacks the additional PSU.
Can anyone give me a sub-£2000 solution, or do I need to look at the likes of Dell and pay over £2k??
Cheers
Andy
I'm after a NAS for use at work and need either 2TB or 4TB, subject to price.
I need it run at least RAID5, but RAID10 would be nice.
I also need it to have redundant power supplies.
I've seen a few like the Buffalo TeraStation Pro II 4TB (4 * 1TB HDD, which will give me enough space in RAID5), but lacks the additional PSU.
Can anyone give me a sub-£2000 solution, or do I need to look at the likes of Dell and pay over £2k??
Cheers
Andy
12 May 2009, 01:49 PM
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12 May 2009, 05:22 PM
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The Thecus 8000 has redundant PSUs, can go up to 16TB with 2GB HDs (8 SATA bays) and is £1500+VAT diskless
Originestore> Home > NAS / SAN / iSCSI > Thecus N8800
Edit to say it's had a good review recently:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/25231...n8800-8tb.html
Originestore> Home > NAS / SAN / iSCSI > Thecus N8800
Edit to say it's had a good review recently:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/25231...n8800-8tb.html
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www.span.com - Find External Hard Drives & Enclosures - Bays:4 to 6 with redundant PSU
The Axes at the bottom, with six 1.5tb Seagate drives comes to £1987.19 inc.VAT
The Axes at the bottom, with six 1.5tb Seagate drives comes to £1987.19 inc.VAT
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If you don't really need an appliance, I would just build a cheap server and fill it with disks with a decent raid controller.
My concern with NAS are their throughput in the cheaper ones and if something breaks, you might have to buy a similar model to fix it, start again from scratch/backup or end up mounting the drives on a *nix box to get your data back.
OS/software wise, there are open source software that will do the job without messing too much, freenas and probably openfiler springs to mind.
Just MHO... Common components that are not all integrated.
H
My concern with NAS are their throughput in the cheaper ones and if something breaks, you might have to buy a similar model to fix it, start again from scratch/backup or end up mounting the drives on a *nix box to get your data back.
OS/software wise, there are open source software that will do the job without messing too much, freenas and probably openfiler springs to mind.
Just MHO... Common components that are not all integrated.
H
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If you don't really need an appliance, I would just build a cheap server and fill it with disks with a decent raid controller.
My concern with NAS are their throughput in the cheaper ones and if something breaks, you might have to buy a similar model to fix it, start again from scratch/backup or end up mounting the drives on a *nix box to get your data back.
OS/software wise, there are open source software that will do the job without messing too much, freenas and probably openfiler springs to mind.
Just MHO... Common components that are not all integrated.
H
My concern with NAS are their throughput in the cheaper ones and if something breaks, you might have to buy a similar model to fix it, start again from scratch/backup or end up mounting the drives on a *nix box to get your data back.
OS/software wise, there are open source software that will do the job without messing too much, freenas and probably openfiler springs to mind.
Just MHO... Common components that are not all integrated.
H
X-Case RM 316 16x hot-swappable SATA (I or II) / SAS drive bays- 950 Watt Psu - Racksurf , Rackmount cases, Rackmount systems, 1u,2,3u,4u,5u, rackmount systems, rackqueen, custom server, bespoke server for £400.
A 16 channel Adaptec SAS RAID controller would be £500, a motherboard / CPU / RAM combo around £200 (dual core, bog-standard ATX board and 4GB DDR RAM)
So that's £1100+VAT.
Eight 500GB SATA HDs ("RAID" spec ones) would be £550, giving 4TB and money left over for cables, bits 'n' bots and a few pints in the local boozer after work
Me thinks one of these needs building at work for a test
16 May 2009, 07:07 PM
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Im liking that site Chris, I was about to make a fairly hefty order from Span at the end of this month, but seeing the 20 Drive Hotswap 4u, this one>
XC RM 420 - 20 Drive Hotswap 4u with SATA II Backplane. - Racksurf , Rackmount cases, Rackmount systems, 1u,2,3u,4u,5u, rackmount systems, rackqueen, custom server, bespoke server
for £275 has got me thinking
XC RM 420 - 20 Drive Hotswap 4u with SATA II Backplane. - Racksurf , Rackmount cases, Rackmount systems, 1u,2,3u,4u,5u, rackmount systems, rackqueen, custom server, bespoke server
for £275 has got me thinking
16 May 2009, 09:32 PM
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Aye, I only found them on Google this week so can't comment on service or anything.
Quality of the some of the X-Case doesn't quite look to be up to SuperMicro standard (as an OEM rather than big player like HP), though the Chenbro looks nice. Still, once it's stuff in a rack or a corner, who cares?
Quality of the some of the X-Case doesn't quite look to be up to SuperMicro standard (as an OEM rather than big player like HP), though the Chenbro looks nice. Still, once it's stuff in a rack or a corner, who cares?
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