I've used a myriad of different NAS boxes over the years. Both Terrastation Pro and Linkstation, no real complaints about them. Other than the fact that the boot ROM resides on the hard drives in the Terrastation Pro I have, and if you swap out all the drives at the same time then you have to TFTP the image back to the box. What a pain, never have gotten around to doing it yet. Been sitting there with 4 1TB drives in it for a couple months, just haven't had the time, should probably sell it. Have had a ReadyNAS NV+ at work and it's performed pretty well. Kind of slow, newer model is suppose to be screaming fast though with a lot of improved features. Problem with is was all 4 disks need to be the exact same model down to a T or it cries. After all those I just picked up a Drobo-FS for home. Started with a couple WD2002FYPS drives, those are the top of the line WD datacenter SATA drives. Suppose to sip the power and be screaming fast. I'm just slowly adding more drives as I find a deal on ebay. So far performance wise I'm kind of disappointed. Like it's been mentioned with other devices if you have multiple data transfers going at the same time it slows down more than I feel it should. But so did all my other NAS boxes. And loading directories with hundreds-thousands of sub folders or files is slow. If I remember the Drobo is suppose to spin down drives if not in use. I don't know how it decides which ones to do. So some of the slowness may be attributed to that. For simplicity you could just get an external locally attached drive with two drives it. A lot of manufactures make them, just set it up for mirroring and forget about it. It's portable and simple to hook up and a lot cheaper than NAS. http://www.buy.com/prod/fantom-2tb-g-force-megadisk-dual-interface-usb-2 -0-esata-external-hard/q/loc/101/206729332.html
________________________________ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Buffalo - was Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? Drobos? I'm not looking at their NAS offerings, per se. I'm looking at a Drobo Elite as a backup SAN for our existing SAN. I've heard generally good things about them. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Jonathan. Well, we've got one of these now with 4 tb total - in a raid 5 configuration. We won't get anymore of them then to use as an small business NAS. I think I need to go search the past threads on what type of small < $1000.00 NAS would be a good choice for doing backups and possible user data storage to ;) Don ________________________________ From: Jonathan Link <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 9:28:03 AM Subject: Re: Buffalo - was Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? IME, the Buffalo products didn't support NTFS permissions, and I had to manage shared permissions individually for the users. This proved unwieldy quite quickly. So we migrated other commonly needed data to the NAS and user information back to DAS with NTFS permissions. This was about 4 years ago, so things may have changed. Just thought I'd throw this out there before you get too far along... On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Jack/all. Thanks for the info. We are at AD functional level 2003. I'm going to guess the secure authentication settings are on, so how or where do I turn them off to see if it helps? Don ________________________________ From: "Kramer, Jack" <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 8:41:53 AM Subject: Re: Buffalo - was Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? What's your AD functional level? Also do you have (iirc) secure authentication or whatever it's called turned on? (Default is on in 2003 and newer functional levels) Sometimes the problem is that the often-SAMBA-based SMB/CIFS components on these little things can't handle the newer password hashes sent from a domain with that setting turned on so you have to disable it. You'll degrade your theoretical security a bit but it's unlikely that an attacker will be able to take advantage of any new vulnerability without first physically penetrating your network, so it can be worth it. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:37:54 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Subject: Buffalo - was Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? Sorry to jump this thread, but speaking of Buffalo NAS - does anyone have any good information (besides the Buffalo doc and website) on how to get an LS-QL Linkstation Quad to work in an Active Directory environment as a shared target for users to connect to via their domain login? I set it up using their doc to put in the domain name (for the workgroup), DC's IP address, DNS IP, made an open share on it that users are supposed to be able to map to so they get added to the access list and still couldn't connect to it. I searched their forums and knowledge base then called support and they were less than helpful. The guy said that there's an issue with Windows Server 2008 and it's the OS's fault(even though it doesn't work from an XP workstation, 2000 server or 2008 server), then said that we have network issues which is why we can't access the drive from the server or any other client on the lan. This morning the thing isn't even pingable so I can't access it via the web interface... Thanks Don K ________________________________ From: David Lum <[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 8:17:15 AM Subject: RE: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? I have Cavalry USB 2.0/eSATA RAID1 externals drive and being just external SATA it's just as fast as an internal SATA drive. If eSATA is OK just do a web search for "eSATA RAID1 external" I have Buffalo NAS at clients as just extra storage and both solutions work well. Dave From: Jim Slattery [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? I recently started taking a lot of photos and videos, and I'm realizing that my current storage solution at home isn't going to cut it very soon. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good price/performance RAID enclosure (or populated solution) for home use? I'd like to have 3-4TB available if possible. Thanks, and Happy Holidays! 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