[BNM] Solid NAS for 20 macs

[David Andrew]

I have one. I bought it for ease of use , set up, administer and
flexibility - so far so good. Had to send the first one back though as
there was an issue with the fan motor (well known issue in the 1st
gen). It had a stepped speed ratio on the fan depending on how much
work it needed to do. When it got down to the slowest speed it sounded
like a 747.  Called them up and they came and replaced it within a
couple of days and arranged for the old one to be taken away. Very
cool!

Do your research though! If you want to use it on a widows machine
there have been people having ussue with the drivers.

2009/6/4 Hazlitt Eastman <heastman at i-zimbra.com>:
> Thanks Jay,
>
> Funnily enough I have just been looking at reviews of Drobos.  They seem
> like a good deal in comparison to raid storage servers.
>
> Hazlitt
>
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> 2009/6/4 Hazlitt Eastman <heastman at i-zimbra.com>:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a solid NAS or storage server for 20 odd macs to
>> access simultaneously?
>
> We've got a 2 TB Western Digital running mirrored (so it's only 1TB
> but  copied to both drives for redundency).
>
> http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=983306&source=froogle
>
> If I was to buy a new office NAS, I'd go for one of these though, for
> easy future proofing, as you can just stuff new drives in and it will
> do a variety of RAID configurations:
>
> http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php but you do have to buy the
> droboshare separately. Looks like there's a special offer on at the
> moment (free drobo share)
> http://drobo.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=178 - don't forget
> to buy the disks too!
>
>
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