[olug] SMB NAS devices

[Kelly Williams]

How many users and if its going to a few build your own..

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:

> Anybody got experience using a medium-sized NAS device for a small
> business network?  Care to recommend a product?
>
> I need something that will store up to 5-8TB of data, preferably RAID6,
> no larger than 1TB individual drives (striping speed), in a 2U chassis
> (or 3U with a compelling reason).  Access is probably a 70/30 split
> of Linux (NFS) and Windows (CIFS), with both accessing the same
> filesystems.
> I'd like the option of using iSCSI down the road.  I'd prefer something
> that resembled an appliance so other admins here weren't tempted to turn
> our file server into a general purpose compute server.  I should be able
> to do this for $5-10K.
>
> I've only looked at Dell & PogoLinux so far.  Dell has a gap right at
> the size I'm looking at.  Lots more to look at yet, though.
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
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