On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:07 PM, William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: > On 12/11/2010 11:15 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. >> >> TheCus devices seems to be rather powerful as well, and you can stack >> upto 5 units together. But that's where the line stops. >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> So, what do you use? >> How well does it work for you? >> And, how reliable / fast / scalable is it? >> > Two things: > QNAP > coraid > > coraid is in the Linux Kernel(don't know about Cent 5 though) but you > can also look into them directly as well..:) > _______________________________________________ It may just be due to the limited suppliers we have with these devices in South Africa, but I found the TheCus devices to perform better than the QNAP's that I could get hold off. I'm still looking for a Coraid supplier.... -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532