Looking for a NAS with raid level 5 with around 1TB
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whoKnows
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 15:07    Post subject: Looking for a NAS with raid level 5 with around 1TB
Like the topic says, i'm looking for a raid system and since it's for private use it should be affordable and even more important it should be very quite (so no 19 inch systems). The requirements are around 1TB of space and it should have raid level 5 and a gbit connection

At first i thought about buying a raid controller (Intel SRCS16) and four 250GB hd's, but there is no way i can keep that quite as my pc is loud enough already and my barebone is too small for 4 hd's Wink

I googled for some out of the box solutions and came up with the Terastation from Buffalo:
http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19

The reviews are all very good, except for the speed, wich is around 11MB/s, but that's okay with me, reviews also say it is very quite. But since i don't trust reviews i want to know if someone by any chance owns one and can give me a little review.

Or if somemone knows of any other raid systems let me know please.

TIA Smile


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 15:34    Post subject:
why dont you just buy a cheap pc and plenty of PCI controllers and thne 4*250gb SATA HDDs.

Thats what I did Wink


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 16:01    Post subject:
Google for "NAS" and you will find some nice boxes.. but they wont be cheap Razz..
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 16:01    Post subject:
thats more expensive than the above raid, and you don't have any data security with your setup (and it makes quite some noise i guess Wink. If one of the drives failes your data is lost, with raid lvl 5 you can just change the hd and get all your data back and you dont loose that much space with lvl 5 compared to lvl 1.

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@syn: that's what i did, and the only other system wich came close was the Thecus N4100. Besides, i don't want to have jumbo jet noise in my condo Wink I already have two scsi adapter so an external raid with a scsi connection would be fine too, but they are even more expensive. And a nas is more flexible, maybe i should have made that clear in the topic that i'm actually looking for a nas... fixed Wink
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 19:14    Post subject:
dont know what you class as affordable but for under £600 buffalo do a nice sized 1tb nas sytems, does raid 5 aswell

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 20:24    Post subject:
pancake wrote:
dont know what you class as affordable but for under £600 buffalo do a nice sized 1tb nas sytems, does raid 5 aswell

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19


haha yes, that's the one i was asking about, check the link in my post Wink
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 08:43    Post subject:
whoKnows wrote:
pancake wrote:
dont know what you class as affordable but for under £600 buffalo do a nice sized 1tb nas sytems, does raid 5 aswell

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=97&categoryid=19


haha yes, that's the one i was asking about, check the link in my post Wink


lol didnt even notice that... have to love beer dont you
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 16:07    Post subject:
Looks like you have your answer buddy.. however, I would choose lvl1 over lvl5.. unless your data is essential to life you should be wanting to get the 1TB you pay for Razz
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 16:16    Post subject:
[sYn] wrote:
Looks like you have your answer buddy.. however, I would choose lvl1 over lvl5.. unless your data is essential to life you should be wanting to get the 1TB you pay for Razz


huh? Wink lvl 1 is mirroring and gives me 500GB, lvl 5 is parity wich gives me 750GB, i will definatly go for lvl 5. And lvl0 (is that the one you meant) gives me 1TB but is way too risky. If one drives fails all data on the other drives is lost aswell. JBOD would be an option to get the full 1Tb without the risk of lvl0

But after extensive googeling i came up with a better one:
The ReadyNAS 600 from Infrant Technologies: http://www.infrant.com/

The only problem is that i can't find any dealers for it in the EU Sad
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 17:10    Post subject:
http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=370

looks pretty similar, maybe a diffrent name in europe
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PostPosted: Sat, 24th Dec 2005 11:12    Post subject:
pancake wrote:
http://www.multitask-computing.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=370

looks pretty similar, maybe a diffrent name in europe


Edit:
looks quite the same, but I finally found the NAS i was looking for , will get this one now:
http://www.mudata.de/Datenblatt/ALL6400.pdf

(with Intel IOP,Intel GBit Lan, Intel Sata Controller and 256MB DDR Ram, isn't that great syn, the whole Intel package Wink )
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