QNAP TS-209 Pro Gigabit SATA NAS

Comments

1. 
   2 Jul 2008 ~ 1:03pm 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
2. 
   2 Jul 2008 ~ 2:26pm BuddyJ How many connections before it matters?
3. 
   2 Jul 2008 ~ 2:45pm 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
4. 
   2 Jul 2008 ~ 3:39pm primesuspect 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
5. 
   2 Jul 2008 ~ 5:51pm 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