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halemb
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Tue Jun 28, 2005 8:16 am Post subject:
cheap NAS?? |
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hello
I am looking for a cheap NAS for our firm. I have found Open-E NAS
ENTERPRISE (http://www.open-e.com/index.php?g=product&lang=eng&aid=151).
What do you think about this solutions?? Anyone use this NAS???
Maybe another solutions??
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Best Regards, Halemb |
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Rob Turk
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Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject:
Re: cheap NAS?? |
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"halemb" <halemb@gazeta.pl> wrote in message
news:d9qusg$k2r$1@inews.gazeta.pl...
| Quote: | hello
I am looking for a cheap NAS for our firm. I have found Open-E NAS
ENTERPRISE (http://www.open-e.com/index.php?g=product&lang=eng&aid=151).
What do you think about this solutions?? Anyone use this NAS???
Maybe another solutions??
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Best Regards, Halemb
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This looks like a bootable IDE Flash disk with NAS software, presumably
based on Linux or BSD. Interesting gadget. Next step is probably a bootable
USB key ;-)
The quality/reliability of the NAS itself depends also on the hardware you
plug this in to. It looks like you need to buy an off-the-shelf server +
disks to turn this into a product.
Rob |
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Faeandar
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Wed Jun 29, 2005 12:16 am Post subject:
Re: cheap NAS?? |
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:41:21 +0200, halemb <halemb@gazeta.pl> wrote:
| Quote: | hello
I am looking for a cheap NAS for our firm. I have found Open-E NAS
ENTERPRISE (http://www.open-e.com/index.php?g=product&lang=eng&aid=151).
What do you think about this solutions?? Anyone use this NAS???
Maybe another solutions??
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Best Regards, Halemb
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It depends on how cheap. I see nothing wrong with a Sun host running
an optimized Solaris kernel as an NFS server. This is substantially
cheaper than, say, a NetApp. However it's still more expensive than a
white box running Gentoo Linux with a grip of ATA drives attached to
it.
It's all in the definition I guess. It also depends on how reliable
this needs to be. The more people use it the more important it
becomes.
~F |
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mf
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Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:16 am Post subject:
Re: cheap NAS?? |
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Open-E claims to have a large number of installs in Europe (over a
thousand I believe is the claim). It appears that most of their sales
are part of system integrator white box solutions. I saw a price for
the enterprise version of their product (code module) that was less
than $1000 for a pretty decent set of features (on brochureWEAR
anyway.)
If you try it out, you'll want to pay close attention to the
combination of boards and adapters (duh!) as there must be limitations
to the number of configurations that are supported. This technology
appears to be targeted for applications calling for a few Terabytes of
dirt cheap NAS storage (with RAID) at a price point less than $5k. |
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