On 12/11/10 8:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Maybe I'm just not shopping around enough, or maybe I prefer to well > known brands, I don't know. oh, another. NexSAN ... this is more SAN block storage than NAS file storage, but you can put a NFS server between your NAS clients and it for NAS functionality. the SATAbeast is like 48 SATA drives, for up to 84TB raw (typically you'd want to reserve some hotspares and some level of raid striping, say, 7 x 6-way raid5) these don't have the same level of total redundancy as a NetApp Filer has, but they are way cheaper.