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Post by strata on Aug 29, 2006 23:02:19 GMT 7
I'm still weighing up my options. The Thecus 5200 looks good on paper but doesn't seem to reliably do what it says on the tin .. yet. I looked at the ReadyNAS but that doesn't give the RAID6 option I was looking for. Does anyone have any experience of QSAN devices? The one I am looking at as an alternative to going with the unreliable 5200 is the QSAN S50E10 with 5x500Gb Hitachi SATA2 drives. (links to further info) www.qsan.com.tw/EN/SP50E10.pdfwww.qsan.com.tw/EN/products_inside.htmlThe price I have got seems very good at £1750 (+ 17.5% vat) which includes drives. this does seam like a very good contender unless I am missing something... any advice would be greatfully received! cheers.. jd
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Post by zendaver on Sept 1, 2006 15:14:26 GMT 7
strata, I also think that Thecus' NAS devices need to mature their software a quite a bit more (still happy with my N5200 though), but I wouldn't expect Qsan to be the rock solid NAS of choice with their initial offerings either. Hard to evaluate a yet to be released product though. The S50E10's enclosure looks like the one here: www.addonics.com/products/raid_system/ast4.asp..with the top bay holding the Qsan unique part forming the brains of the NAS. Reminds me of a similar "IceCube" SFF PC I had a few years back - nice enough form factor but not as slim as the N5200. You can always use FreeNAS, ClarkConnect or Ubuntui to "roll your own" NAS, maybe even using VNC to provide a richer than web access to your NAS. I have my N5200 back-up to my older Windows PC myself. -ZenDaveR
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Post by doraemon on Sept 7, 2006 18:14:51 GMT 7
QSAN S50E10 is a RAID subsystem, but Thecus N5200 is a NAS.
Agree with ZenDaver's, the Thecus device should be more stable on the functions. But it still much better than my home made NAS using "Open filer" before.
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