Robin Bowes Wrote: > > In the end, it's a trade off - cost vs. time invested. If you buy and > off-the-shelf NAS solution, it will likely be more expensive but you > will not have to spend much time getting it working. With a custom > solution, it will be cheaper but you'll have to spend time > building/configuring it.
I've purchased two NV's and I can tell you they're definitely not plug and play nor trouble free. If I had to do it again I would definitely opt for an old PC with a RAID controller and a few hard drives rather than spend weeks troubleshooting what should be a plug-and-play device. The PC is likely a cheaper option too and you will get substantially better performance. A key issue with the ReadyNAS products is slow throughput even across gigabit ethernet. I'm still trying to solve my throughput issues:7-8kB/sec whereas the same PCs do a server to server copy at close to 6x faster than that. Infrant support is assisting, however, if you're thinking user error I'm definitely not the only one experiencing these and a host of other issues. Look carefully at the ReadyNAS forum posts before deciding on a course of action. -- egd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ egd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3425 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23021 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
