[ActiveDir] OT: NAS and WSS

[Noah Eiger]

Hello all – I am looking to expand the amount of storage space on the network and am considering a NAS solution running Windows Storage Server 2003 (WSS). I am looking for feedback on NAS in general and WSS in particular.         Are there any AD or licensing issues with WSS? (My hunch is that AD views this as just another member server). Dell offers an OEM version. Any issues there?         It seems that the NIC would be a huge bottleneck. Is that the case? Do people run these as multihomed hosts?         If just using it for file service (as opposed to hosting a database), how many users do you figure per NAS device?         Many of the NAS devices seem to be SATA. How does this perform compared to SCSI?         I know that you are supposed to be able to stick an Exchange database on NAS but is anyone really using this? It seems the timing demands might be too much for it. Thanks. nme   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah M. Eiger EIS Consulting for PRBO Conservation Science 510-717-5742 [EMAIL PROTECTED]