Which NAS?
I'm looking for a NAS - (in my work capacity this is)
Can anyone reccomend a good starting place for reviews etc?
(Or even one you can personally reccomend for a small/medium office environment)
I think the most important requirements are reliability, durability and environmental factors - i.e. quiet and cool.
Speed is not really an issue - most of the time the files stored on it and used from it would be only a few mb's in size - excel files, word files etc, at the very most some psd's etc - no media or massive files.
Can anyone reccomend a good starting place for reviews etc?
(Or even one you can personally reccomend for a small/medium office environment)
I think the most important requirements are reliability, durability and environmental factors - i.e. quiet and cool.
Speed is not really an issue - most of the time the files stored on it and used from it would be only a few mb's in size - excel files, word files etc, at the very most some psd's etc - no media or massive files.
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If you want something middle of the line brand wise that is robust and has lots of options I personally suggest the Buffalo line of NAS's. They are reliable, come in many sizes and are dead easy to setup. If you need something enterprise class don't mess around and go directly to IBM.
I have had a LinkStation Pro for several months now. It has performed flawlessly. It has gigabit network with Large Packet support, Active directory/domain/workgroup support and is relatively fast (12-18 w/o jumbo frames, 20-30 w jumbo frames).
It has been on continuously for 6 months backing itself up to an attached USB drive just as advertised.
Well worth a look for the relative cheap cost.
They will be accessing office documents 99.9% of the time - so small file sizes basically.
As for redundancy - 2HDD's mirrored (Raid 1?!) will be sufficient
Then it basically just needs to run fairly silent and cool.
As for capacity, even a small one @ 250gb in each hdd would be sufficient I think.
I was looking @ the buffalo ones - they look ideal - a step up from the home user / consumer nas but not the enterprise class super expensive 4hdd ones
The D-link dual sata NAS is highly rated like Sledge said.
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190