> -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] > 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.
I just tested the 809Pro and returned it. The NAS was very slow and just could not get the iSCSI features to work at all. Spent a good bit of time with QNAP tech support and they couldn't get it working either. BTW, QNAP support is AWESOME. Got the device in on Friday afternoon and at 10:45PM Central I was on an IM session with QNAP support for almost an hour. The problems I ran into were: Creating the iSCSI target with "allocate all disk space" selected would fail at 95% with device full failure. Creating the iSCSI target with "allocate all disk space" not selected would fail at 95% with drive full failure when doing a quick format in Server 2008 or Vista or Mac OS X 10.5.7. Deleting the failed iSCSI target would require almost 8 hours before the full free space would be returned so something else could be tried. And yes, I was: Using the latest firmware Using approved drives Using Gb Ethernet Using an approved APC UPS device Webster ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
