Looking for some NAS suggestions...
 

Synology is looking good , I was checking out the DS213+ ....

What do you guys use and recommend also any brands you would suggest to stay away from
?


-J D L

I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I like it.

What kind of drives are you packin in there?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I upgraded the RAM as well.

I've got a DS413+ with 4 Western Digital RED-series disks(build for NAS: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810 ). It took a while to get the NTFS-rights working correctly. But now I love it, and it's the brand I recommend when people ask for NAS.

The administration is vastly better than Buffalo and most other pro/consumer models.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

We used a 1511 with WD Caviar Black's for years and it was great. Most things are migrated to our EMC pool now since we've got a pipe direct to the rack from our office, but the Synology still runs and gets used because it's just damn convenient.

That said, I'd take a serious look at commercially-supported FreeNAS and Openfiler builds. the iXsystems once that directly support FreeNAS are really nice and you'll have worlds more power if you want to do anything fancy.

Another thing, stay away from the tiny consumer appliances that cram <5 drives directly against every heat source they can find. If there's not a little breathing room you're going to have a bad time. (Most <5 disk Synologys and other big brands have tons of complaints about this.)

Juicy is joking ladies and gentleman, "pron" is dead. :GFYBand

why not buy an old server on ebay with a 15 drive case and just build your own ?

for a little over $300 http://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-9...em3381fe59f 1 everything you need besides hd's add as many as you want case supports 15 of them

got the same - with 3tb WD drives - and expansion unit

noice and cost of running :)

you put it in your closet or wherever noise dont matter.

and cost of running your probably looking at 1a more tops of power then a cheap nas.

guess it depends on how much power costs where your at.

Synology gets my vote

QNAP

http://www.qnap.com/upload/album/24/...1941_32239.png

http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?sn=180&lang=en

i have a qnap with 8x2tb drives

http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?sn=...3&t=517&n=3419

http://i.imgur.com/XTptjnn.jpg

Put a supermicro in a closet, and load it up? :helpme

Two x 760W PSU and 15 lowprofile SATA disks, do you have any idea how much heat that produces?, and you compare that to a synology NAS that consumes 44W at max diskread??

disks use same amount of power no matter what they plugged into and generate the same amount of heat.

The QNAP's are amazing..

I have a QNAP TS-412 with 4x WD Red 2TB drives. Works like a charm. Doesn't make a lot of noice and has a low power consumption.

I went with the Synology i think it will suit my needs...

Anybody have options such as nClone where you can image entire systems in case of a meltdown and you can simply just restore the image? lmk