[CentOS] OT: Replacing Venerable NAS

Wed Nov 18 17:51:54 UTC 2015
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Tim Evans wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 11:50 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>> What size storage are you looking at, and what's your budget? Are we
>> talking a 4TB drive, or 33TB, or...?
>
> Sorry, should've mentioned this is for home/home office. The ReadyNAS is
> a four-bay unit, with 500GB disks.  Will want a four-bay, probably with
> 1- or 2-TB disks.
>
Recommendation #1: get a multi-bay drive, and buy your own drives - it'll
be cheaper. That being said, we really like our WD Red 4TB drives. They
run about $160 each. The Red *are* for NAS, SAN, etc.

       mark