[olug] SMB NAS devices

[Sam Tetherow]

Have you looked at the Drobo-Pro.  Not sure if it fits your needs but 
have heard good things about them.

	Sam Tetherow

Obi-Wan 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.
>