External Hard drives

[ajr]

Our LaCie drive has died waiting for a repair, we need to replace it with something ie large storage with raid config and network attached, any recommendations?? Looking at about 2 TB of storage or more . (Not getting a lacie dive again heap of crap!!!)


Thanks

A

[Hopkins Printing]

Perhaps a QNAP product might fit your needs:

QNAP Systems, Inc. - Network Attached Storage (NAS) - Products - Products - Storage - SMB

Best regards,
hp

[dabob]

AJ .. . what computers/systems are you running? I have a Mac Pro and got two 2TB SATA drives and put them in the internal bays and used Disk Utitlity to make a mirrored raid - currently using it for time machine . . . . but you can do the same with externals on the Mac also - just wouldn't be a NAS drive but could be shared . . . . .

[Paul Santer]

Take a look at the Drobo

[steve.weiss]

Take a look at the Drobo

I second that!

[Big Dave]

QNAP is good, we have a Synology NAS. Yes, a bit pricey, but well worth the speed, especially with rather large files and works with all OS's. 4K jumbo frames, very fast, no issues to date even after 3+ years of owning it using generic desktop class hard drives. 4 drive RAID 5 plus 1 hot spare (in case of drive failure).

Here's where I checked before buying:
NAS Charts - File Copy Write Performance - SmallNetBuilder

Highly recommend you check it first before buying.

[ajr]

Thanks guys , I'll have a look at these.

A