I second Steve's QNAP recommendation.
The Netgear boxes can do AD authentication, but I prefer the features and performance of the QNAP devices. *ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>wrote: > So, my boss has really been pushing to spec a NAS solution for file serving > for this client. We generally use a server as a file server for clients, > but he thinks they can get away with something cheaper. > > The above is one of netgear's rackmount solutions with the 5 year warranty. > There are less than 50 people in the office, but quite a few of those are > graphics people on Macs. I'll also need to provide FTP access to a share > for collaboration with remote workers/partners. > > We are breaking this company out from former parent company, so I'll also > be setting up a new 2008r2 AD that I hope this NAS will play nice with. > > The plan is to get two of these and one will backup to the other one...then > push a DR backup offsite. > > Anyone know why this would be a horrible idea? > gratzie > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.**com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > **> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.** > com/read/my_forums/ <http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/> > or send an email to > listmanager@lyris.**sunbeltsoftware.com<[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
