Re: Recommended gigabit NAS box?

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 26 March 2010 09:59, Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> My movies/docs archive is now full (or has been for the last year or
so,
> but don't want to delete anything more!). It's a RAID5 array on one of
my
> W2k8 servers. So - I'm wondering whether to upgrade the drives (5 of
them)
> or go for a separate gigabit NAS box. Maybe only a couple of 2TB
drives in
> RAID 0.
>
> So, before doing the sums - can anyone recommend a cost effective,
fast and
> good NAS box? Absolutely HAS to be gigabit Ethernet capable though.
>
>
Small Net Builder have quite a good set of performance charts and reviews
for NAS - http://bit.ly/dxPx46

Out of curiosity why RAID 0 rather than JBOD, are you worried that the
disks
won't be able to keep up?

Cheers

Andy


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