As Curtis mentioned it depends on what you want to do with it. You can homebrew a unit as well with enough HDs and a decent hardware raid card /w battery (if you want RAID 5).
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:03 PM, McKay, Curtis <cmc...@bths201.org> wrote: > I think you really need to take a look at what you’re buying it for. If > you just need some extra storage for backups then Jason or David’s > suggestions are very good. You can spend quite a bit of money on NAS > devices however that have all the RAID built in with high bandwidth iops > too. > > > > I bought a simple NAS box at home for backup purposes and it will not > read/write data faster than 20Mb. For personal backup purposes I don’t > really care, for high availability on your network with live data that’s not > going to cut it. > > > > Curtis McKay > > Network Administrator > > Belleville Township High School District 201 > > cmc...@bths201.org > > > > *From:* tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto: > tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] *On Behalf Of *Jason Livezey > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:14 PM > > *To:* Tech-Geeks Mailing List > *Subject:* Re: [tech-geeks] NAS Storage > > > > Older server, and just use Openfiler, FreeNAS, NASLite, Ubuntu...Whatever > you feel like. > > > > JL > > > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Kyle Avooske wrote: > > > > We are looking at adding NAS storage to our network. What would you guys > recommend for a good device? > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > Jason Livezey > > Director of Technology > > New Lenox School District #122 > > Cell: 815.693.9338 > > > > ACMT Certified > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED AND RESTRICTED FOR USE BY THE ABOVE ADDRESSEE > ONLY. IT MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM > DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. IN THE EVENT SOME OTHER PERSON OR > ENTITY RECEIVES THIS TRANSMISSION, SAID RECIPIENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT > ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR DUPLICATION OF THIS TRANSMISSION OR ITS > CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU SHOULD RECEIVE THIS TRANSMISSION IN ERROR, > PLEASE CALL US IMMEDIATELY AT 309.827.6031, DELETE THE FILE FROM YOUR > SYSTEM, AND DESTROY ANY HARD COPIES OF THIS TRANSMISSION. THANK YOU. > > Bloomington Public Schools School District87 > Bloomington, Illinois > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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