My budget is what the wife deems isn't inappropriate. Sm:)e In all seriousness, I'm looking for something fairly inexpensive. I'm just looking for something that A> can be a file storage for our important files (Movies, images, documents, etc) B> Have redundancy (Raid1 is enough, espcially wit 1TB Hard drives for less than $100) and C> Expandable (As always, I'll end up filling the drive. Moving an existing system to a new harddrive is a pain. Drobo's system is awesome, QNAP has something simular but not as slick).
The system I'm looking at is the TP-219, as it's the lowest cost model to include the live expansion function. But it's $400, while the Drobo is $500... Comparison: QNAP Drobo ------------------- 2-bay 4-bay NAS DAS *(Droboshare is extra) $400 $500 Anybody know of another NAS that does the 0-downtime expansion? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:18:26 -0700 Subject: RE: QNAP - Alternative to Drobo? > What's your budget? I just got a ML350 G5 for someone at home > and bought bare caddies to use off the shelf SATA drives. Was > like 2000.00 CAN for a crazy setup... that might be overkill > but it is as close to an enterprise setup as you get for a mere > 2k. > > Load Solaris 10 and do all that fancy jazz with ZFS. > > You could also do it with Linux and LVM. > > jlc > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:25 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: QNAP - Alternative to Drobo? > > Anybody on this list have any experience with the QNAP NAS boxes? They seem > to be extremely powerful, including live disk drive expansion on some of > their models (although not nearly as slick as the Drobo solution). > > I'm thinking of buying one for home. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
