Re: Budget network attached storage?

[Joseph Heenan <joseph-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20050829233906.C16563@xxxxxxx>
James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Quoting Mark Ryder (mark@xxxxxxx):
>
> > I have 3TB of storage on my network and have pretty much run out.
> > I'm looking for additional NAS as well now for a DVD server (I've
> > ripped my DVD images).   Whilst the NSLU-2 is a good unit, I'll
> > probably go for something like a Buffalo Terrastation this time,
> > although the price is daunting at £600 inc VAT for 1TB.
>
> I recently did some testing for a client who wanted to use a
Terastation
> for backups.  The performance was horrendously bad.  If you're mostly
> using it for read access then perhaps it might be ok, but I couldn't
> recommend it if you're writing a lot of data regularly.

Was that in a RAID 5 configuration or all configurations?

Joseph

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