QNAP TS-209 Pro Gigabit SATA NAS

[Buddy J]

When you need more storage, sometimes all you need is a remote hard drive on your network. Enter the QNAP TS-209 Pro Gigabit SATA NAS (http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=195&Itemid=1).

[Shorty]

Great little unit for home. Decent performance and cheap :)

I do wonder how they can target it for business though? Small business at the most. SATA drives on a software emulated RAID with very average read/write performance (due to the low cost nature of SATA) are not really the grade for more than a couple of connections at a time. Real enterprise NAS uses large arrays of SATA & SCSI with a dedicated hardware SCSI controller with XOR processor and onboard cache memory*

*I was asked to clarify my comments by BuddyJ

[Buddy J]

How many connections before it matters?

[Shorty]

Can never tell until it's tested for that kind of operation. That's why companies evaluate products in a mock production environment first if that is a potential concern :)

I don't think it would serve 400+ concurrent connections from busy business users though ;D

[primesuspect]

I don't think 400+ concurrent connections qualifies as "small business" either :wtf: :p

For a small workgroup of <10, this probably isn't a bad solution

[Shorty]

I didn't say it could not work for business, I just think it only suits a small to medium size business on a limited budget. I do think however that trusting any significant company data to that device alone would be a dangerous move :)