What NAS to use with my imac and MBP?

HarryPainful

HarryPainful

HarryPainful

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Ok, what I would like from it is:

Time machine option
Media server (PS3)
iscsi (use with vmware)
2 or more disks and RAID 5 hopefully.

I know building a server would probably be the best bet but I really dont want to do that, I just want something I can hide away somewhere and use it for whatever I need to.

I am not after a Drobo as they are too much imo.

Any ideas? what are you using?
 
What is the intended usage? Storage, backups, streaming or a bit of everything?

I, personally, would go for a bog standard RAID1 NAS. It will be small, power efficient and you'll just be able to forget about it.
 
Anything with iSCSI will be expensive, do you really need it? (Especially given that last time I spoke to them vmware were tacitly acknowledging that NFS performs better anyway?)
 
As soon as you said iSCSI then you're looking at a Drobo Pro/Elite or similarly expensive.
 
I don't "really" need iscsi, it more for playing around with vmware.

Just make things like clustering easier and such.

I was hoping someone was using or knew of one that did all I want for a reasonable price :(
 
HarryPainful said:
I don't "really" need iscsi, it more for playing around with vmware.

Just make things like clustering easier and such.

I was hoping someone was using or knew of one that did all I want for a reasonable price :(
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If you want to play around with that just use NFS, it's as good and VMware admit that it's usually very slightly faster than iSCSI anyway, and everything supports NFS...

You're problem is you're bridging two different markets, home NAS devices are reasonably priced (WD mybook network, lacie network space etc) and have itunes servers, DLNA media servers and 1 or 2 disks, business NAS devices have RAID5, 4 bays and iSCSI support (well not so much iSCSI, technically anything which does iSCSI is a SAN). There are devices which cross over a bit but broadly those are the two markets...
 
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