QNAP TS-209 Pro Gigabit SATA NAS
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.
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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
How many connections before it matters?
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
I don't think 400+ concurrent connections qualifies as "small business" either
For a small workgroup of <10, this probably isn't a bad solution
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