NAS recommendations

[sparkeh]

We are thinking of adding a NAS box to the network to hold/share multimedia resources.

Anyone have any recommendations for a good solution?

I was looking at the Buffalo Terrastation.

TIA

Mark

[mattx]

Freenas

FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home

[ I wonder how many times I have pushed this now ???!!! ]

Also suggest:

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Learning-FreeNAS-Gary-Sims/dp/1847194680"]Amazon.com: Learning FreeNAS: Configure and manage a network attached storage solution: Gary Sims: Books[/ame]

Excellent book covering most aspects.

[linescanner]

How big do you need ?

[tmcd35]

Buffalo Terastations, every time!

[ozzy]

Terastation for me to, we have had two for 2 years now for backup and storage and not had a single problem with them

[CPLTD]

We are thinking of adding a NAS box to the network to hold/share multimedia resources.

Anyone have any recommendations for a good solution?

I was looking at the Buffalo Terrastation.

TIA

Mark

How about this Mark,

Buffalo TeraStation Pro II 1TB 19 Rackmount Network Attached Storage £395.00+vat Free Next Day Delivery




Features:
Simple Install and Management


Active Directory Support - Will join an AD domain to utilise AD users and groups

DFS (Distributed File System) Support

Intuitive front panel LCD shows status information

Easy setup wizard and management through intuitive web interface

Quick swap hard drive trays behind the front panel for easy drive access and replacement

2U 19” Rack Mountable

UPS Support

RAID Support


Five Operating RAID Modes: RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, Standard

Advanced RAID system continually checks hard drive and RAID performance

High Performance


Four High Speed (7,200 RPM) Hard Drives in One

10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet with Jumbo Frame

Large near silent fan to release HDD heat effectively and quietly

Built-in FTP server functionality

Two USB 2.0 ports, allowing extra drives to be connected

Memeo™ AutoBackup Software Included


Specifications
Buffalo TeraStation Pro II 1TB 19 Rackmount Network Attached Storage
Standard Compliance IEEE802.3ab/IEEE802.3u/IEEE802.3 Standard 1000BASE-T/ 100BASE-TX/ 10BASE-T
Data Transfer Rates 10 / 100 / 1000 Mbps
Connector Type RJ-45
Hard Drive Size 1.0TB
Dimension (WxHxD mm) 480 x 86 x 420
OS Support Windows® Vista™, Windows® XP, Windows® 2000

In Stock and available for free next business day delivery!

[mattx]

Buffalo TeraStation Pro II 1TB 19 Rackmount Network Attached Storage £395.00+vat Free Next Day Delivery

You can do better than that by building your own and using Freenas [ FreeBSD ] plus get much more features.

If you want a straight out the box solution though its quite a good price.....

[oggster]

Be careful of these if you have lots of users and want to use AD authentication. We bought one and soon discovered an undocumented feature - the AD authentication only supports up to 1000 users!
Its coded into their software and they wouldn't change it. We ended up sending it back.

[FN-GM]

Be careful of these if you have lots of users and want to use AD authentication. We bought one and soon discovered an undocumented feature - the AD authentication only supports up to 1000 users!
Its coded into their software and they wouldn't change it. We ended up sending it back.

We had the same thing, sent it back for a ready nas.

[sammy]

Buffalo TeraStations all the way...good robust piece of kit, i have several schools that use those and never had any problems.

[Ric_]

You can do better than that by building your own and using Freenas [ FreeBSD ] plus get much more features.

Also Openfiler (see Openfiler — Openfiler Homepage ) - even MORE features (e.g. iSCSI).

[sparkeh]

Thanks everyone! And thanks Simon for the call, always a pleasure.

[Gibbo]

I had a Terastation fail a few months ago. The network card part of it failed and it was out of warranty.

I'll build my own in future than trust one of these again. At least I can get off the shelf parts if it fails.

[jimmckenna]

Following on from the previous comments about self build. Anyone care to offer up a spec they have used for self build and is now "doing the business" I am looking more at back up than shared drives also rack mount version. Much appreciated in advance!! Ta

[Steven_Cleaver]

Buffalo Terastation here too although only for backup.