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natrat
October 14th, 2010, 10:23 PM
hi all,

browsing the NAS market for a small business client so budget an issue. Data storage requirements around the 1TB level. Want to do RAID5 so 4 bays minimum. Needs to have AD integration.

So far am looking at the ReadyNAS NV+ or the Thecus N4200 with 4x500Gb drives. This is about the upper limit of the budget.

Any experiences or suggestions?

cheers
nathan
pops1000uk
October 21st, 2010, 12:59 PM
got a spare pc? Either Freenas or openfiler. Open filer is better if you have active directory running! I have just finished my openfiler and pleased with it
natrat
October 21st, 2010, 09:08 PM
Interesting, I will have a play.
pops1000uk
October 23rd, 2010, 05:33 AM
got 2 lan cards bonding also with openfiler!
bkendall
October 25th, 2010, 07:15 PM
We use HP ProLiant http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-3328421-3884339.html DL180 servers with openfiler. They have a lot of expandability and awesome reliability.

Brad Kendall
www.bradkendall.ca
bkendall@ccrtech.ca
Arcadia Computer, Inc.
September 4th, 2011, 04:04 PM
We use a Buffalo 2 drive system with RAID1. 2 X 2TB. Interface is easy. We started imaging all drives that came in due to people saving stuff on the Root of C:\
-David-
September 5th, 2011, 04:14 PM
I use a 4TB buffalo NAS in mirror as an additional backup for my raid 5 server. Buffalo has work perfect for over 2 years with zero faults.

model LS-WX4.0TL/R1

Link http://www.buffalotech.com/files/products/LS-WXL-R1_DS.pdf