RE: Recommended gigabit NAS box?

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Andy.

Sorry - my mistake, should have been RAID1 rather than RAID0. Although a
lot of the big files are TV shows etc - there will also be some data I want
to have at least a minimum amount of redundancy for (if not backup).

I'll have a look at your link. Reading elsewhere that many of the cheaper
NAS boxes aren't particularly fast performing - so will be interesting to
see what they say.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Andy Davies
> Sent: 26 March 2010 10:42
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Recommended gigabit NAS box?
>
> 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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