Spec me a NAS

[swain90]

Hi All,

I'm looking at getting a NAS for a production environment.

I've had a play with the xpenology operating system (web interface) and everything seems quite straight forward. (Apart from my weird Hyper V disk issue)

The two systems I've pulled out as possabilities are;

Synology RS816 4x2TB (8TB)
NETGEAR ReadyNAS 3138 RN31843E 4x3TB (12TB)


The servers attaching to this will be Windows Server 2003, I've had a look at the specs for both and they both require a minimum os required as Windows 7.

In my test environment I've used Server 2003 and Firefox Portable ESR to connect to the xpenology and can create shares fine, so I was wondering what the requirement for Windows 7 and above is for?

I'd prefer to go with the Synology as the retailer specifically states it comes with WD drives which I would prefer, the netgear just states they use enterprise disks.

My experiences with NAS' are pretty limited as we tend to just bung a large disk in a server for our dev environment.

Have I missed something, or are they all very similar?

The disks will be setup as 2x RAID1 arrays. Even the 8TB will probably be overkill so I doubt i'd ever have to expand the storage.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers

Swain90

 

[swain90]

There will be very little user input.

We are looking to use robocopy to update files on the nas so we can manage the bandwith.