On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> No experience with the QNAP, but here's what I'd do.
> Get a refurb Dell server and stuff it full of disks.
> Put FreeNAS on it.
> Done.

  Apparently you missed this part:

>>   But management here is concerned that good Linux people are harder
>> to find than Windows people.  They don't like that my minions don't
>> have expertise with such systems.  So I'm considering something that
>> comes with a bit more hand-holding, a bit more "ready-to-go,
>> out-of-the-box".  And NAS hardware can be cheaper than general-purpose
>> server hardware.

-- Ben


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