NAS device for a primary school?

[richard]

I'm looking at adding a NAS device onto the curriculum network here to provide some additional storage.

In the last last month the school seems to have gone photo happy and have taken some 4 gigs of pictures which they want to keep on the network for future reference. I would woiuld also like to move things like my Ghost images off the server as they aren't used that often.

I have just been looking at a 1TB Buffalo Terrastation as a possible solution but am wondering if this would be overkill for the school? I ahd though of buying a large USB drive but I would like to have some sort of redunancy built into it.

[webman]

Regular computer with big disks running FreeNAS should see it done.

[richard]

Haven't got the room for another pc unfortunatley

[webman]

Well either the Buffalo device (quite popular on here, we have 2 of the TeraStation Pros) or have a look at the Thecus stuff. Either the N2050 or the N2100 would be ideal - 2 disks, RAID1 mirrored.

[Geoff]

Got a couple of Terastations here for backup purposes. They work ok. Just be careful about the Active directory integration. On some model/firmware combinations it appears not to work.

[richard]

To be honest I'm not to worried about AD integration as my main aim is to us it an an archive device. But I will take that on board.

[ricki]

Tera stations are great I use one to back up to.

Richard

[richard]

I'm just starting to ask around my suppliers for a price.

[mattx]

Why not use Freenas ?

www.freenas.org

[richard]

Why not use Freenas ?

www.freenas.org

If you had read one of my earlier posts I have no room for an addtional pc/server here.

[mattx]

If you had read one of my earlier posts I have no room for an addtional pc/server here.

But you have room for a NAS box ??????
Plenty of small cases around for sale these days.....

[Midget]

DO NOT GET A NETGEAR SC101

You probably weren't going to, but I have seen no end of these devices come in for recovery, and 9/10 times they can't be recovered.

Do not get any NAS/SAN device that requires you to use their software, else it will just end in tears.

[meastaugh1]

DO NOT GET A NETGEAR SC101

Yeah, they're rubbish You get what you pay for.

[john]

I also own Terrastores, but also have used Linkstation Pros, which are very similar in the rear to the Terrastores, but are slimmer and only one disk, so no RAID but I got a 500gb one for £100 on special about 4 months ago, and it supports AD.

[SimpleSi]

Can you not just stick a bigger drive into your server?

KISS


regards

Simon