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Re: Budget network attached storage?
Quoting Joseph Heenan (joseph-l@xxxxxxx):
> 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?
RAID5, which is going to be slowest in all likelihood, but not *that*
much slower.
James
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