Synology RS2211 NAS - anything better for the money (£1200 ex VAT)?

[feenster99]

Hi all,
I'm looking at buying a NAS. It needs to have a capacity of 10 - 20TB, using SATA discs off the shelf, setup in RAID-5.

I've spotted the Synology RS2211 NAS which is a 10 bay device that takes SATA-300 drives. It has an Atom dual core, and can take up to 3GB of DDR-2. It's retailing for about £1200 ex VAT (with no drives).

Has anyone used one, or is there something better out there for the money? It will be used for storage of lots of small files for a proprietary piece of software. Read/write speeds of around 100MB/s would be fine (iSCSI, VMWare compatibility etc is not important - just Samba shares over the network is fine).

Cheers,
Matt

 

[feenster99]

I'd prefer an off the shelf product as I need something fairly quickly and don't want the hassle of maintaining it. Good point about going for RAID 6 though as the rebuild time will be slow.

I'll have a look at some of the QNAP devices too. Any recommendations in particular?