What Network Attached Storage (NAS) device do you recommend?
 

Which NAS device do you recommend for a SOHO and multimedia setup?

The netgear one is not bad. I forget the model # though. I think they just have 1 model anyways

Netgear has no fan in them and get hot very fast, so I hear.

I'm considering getting a ReadyNAS NV:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/135/nasfrontxe0.jpg
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2240/nasopennl6.jpg

Anyone have one of these and care to comment about it?

Check out Buffalo technology. I have 2.

http://www.isaleporn.com/pix/PICT0388.JPG

6 x 1 TB
1 x 1,6 TB

all Buffalo

they could be faster transferring data, but otherwise i like them.

Damn, that's alot of NAS you got there:thumbsup
Terastation are good but the drives are not really hot-swappable. I'm told you got to go thru 30+ screws just to remove a drive!

besides the fact: how often do you change the drives?

the black ones on the right are - tera station pro

if you want the best, then EMC is the way to go...

most important... always think ahead... think of your future growth and I recommend you get a higher model than you need now...

As of late, I get a new 250GB drive every 3 months.

Which EMC NAS would you recommend for a SOHO (i.e. not too expensive) setup?

some sweet setups there

Out of curiousity, what are these terastation being used for?

Make sure you get a NAS that can match your speed need. I got 20 BUF drives and they cant push more then 11 - 14 Megs even though they got a GIGE port.

Jay

build your own NAS server? 750gb drives are cheap,l you can build a 1.5TB scalable to 9TB Usable NAS for 3k to start, and then just add drives and expand the array as it grows.. Built a 11tb nas for 9k for a medical engineering company few months ago. its a solid solution.

Supermicro makes a 15bay SATA 3u chassis, get a external drive bay for a mirrored OS and then 15x 750 for the storage partition..

contact me on icq and i'll show you the parts to get to build it.

Building one from scratch seems a bit complext for me, unless I get an old desktop and add hard drives to it:winkwink:

How much does a good 4 bay enclosure go for and where can i get them?

Yes, this is the route we have taken now. Using 750 GB Disk, 3 Ware cards and 16 Bay Super Micro cases. The end cost will be less then 1$/GB, it can be bought down to $ 60 - 70 cents / gb, but we chose to go with http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelody.asp software to manage the NAS so our end cost is like 1.05$/GB

Jay

6 of 7 contain all our video content in dv avi and mpeg files. number 7 is picture content

they're all set up as raid 5 - i started using them after some harddrives blew up

and i like the fact that they're not that expensive - i pay about 600 euro for the 1 TB models

edit: another advantage i forgot: i open the box, plug in power and network and 2 minutes later i start copying files

cheapest they have starts at around $30k...

That's it?
You're sure you didn't forget a zero?:winkwink:

i agree with building your own.

just put together a basic pc, couple of gig-e network cards.

stick a few hot swap 5 1/4 drive bays in it.

buy a bunch of these and fill them with 500 - 750gb drives.

http://www.bithosting.net/rack/images/rack%20007.jpg

We use Dell/EMC

What's the cost of setting up such a system?

I just got my terastation today:
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/939/cimg1461yj3.jpg
A bit pricy for my taste but it does look nice.:thumbsup