Synology Inc. DS1512+

[drjones]

My preference is for Netgear's ReadyNAS.

I've installed many of them, own three, and they are awesome.

Have more features/plugins/addons than you can shake a stick at.

One of the big ones; you can purchase software to have the NAS at the office backup to a remote NAS located offsite, thus creating your own offsite backup.

It can be a very good solution & save a lot of money for people who have a lot of data.

 

[ElementalWindX]

I love the synology specs. I have yet to play with one. I have approached a few "cheap" clients about using one with 5 samsung (or intel) ssd hard drives (depending on the price point at the moment). The 120GB drives are going for an amazing price right now!


I love how it says it can do teaming and handle ssd drives.

 

[coffee]

My preference is for Netgear's ReadyNAS.

I've installed many of them, own three, and they are awesome.

Have more features/plugins/addons than you can shake a stick at.

One of the big ones; you can purchase software to have the NAS at the office backup to a remote NAS located offsite, thus creating your own offsite backup.

It can be a very good solution & save a lot of money for people who have a lot of data.

Im curious about how efficient doing a remote backup to another NAS would be. If the onsite NAS has something like a 6tb raid and say 3tb is used wouldnt take a long time to back it up remotely? Especially if the business just has a DSL connection?

Interested in hearing from others that have this type of setup running (NAS to NAS remote backup) and your impressions.

Best Regards,

coffee

 

[ElementalWindX]

Im curious about how efficient doing a remote backup to another NAS would be. If the onsite NAS has something like a 6tb raid and say 3tb is used wouldnt take a long time to back it up remotely? Especially if the business just has a DSL connection?

Interested in hearing from others that have this type of setup running (NAS to NAS remote backup) and your impressions.

Best Regards,

coffee

If you use a way to throttle or qos your WAN connection then it can work very similar to carbonite/mozy/etc, otherwise it will saturate the weaker connection and users on that network might hate working during that time.

The first initial backups always take the longest. You would be dealing with a lot of incremental backups.