On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm > referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or > home theater system. > > We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but > I'm in the market for something new. The NetGear's aren't the cheapest > ones around but they do what it says on the box. My only real gripe > with them is the lack of decent scalability. see, I'd consider ReadyNAS to be SOHO, just what you said you didn't want. > I'm now looking for something that could scale beyond 100TB on one > device (not necessarily one unit though) and find it frustrating that > most NAS's come in 1U or 2U at most. > > Maybe I'm just not shopping around enough, or maybe I prefer to well > known brands, I don't know. the big boys in NAS are Network Appliance aka Netapp. they will scale as large as your budget allows. The FAS6200 line scales to something like 1400 drives and redundant HA controllers.