I have just started a small business and I have to decide on a NAS pronto.
I am torn between a Netgear Readynas Duo (£200, without drives), or a QNAP TS-219 (£330 without drives).
I'm planning on putting in 2 x 1Tb drives in either, using Raid1.
I've read all the superb articles that Tim has written here on backup, not doing raid etc. but i am still confused as to what my best solution for a NAS and NAS backup are ?
(As an aside I was keen as mustard to get the best 4 bay NAS, but after reading Tim's articles, quickly decided that was a bad move.)
My initial thoughts for the NAS backup, are to get another NAS, ie Readynas, or QNAP with just 1 drive in to backup to. But is that an approriate and resilient enough backup ? Neither of these units have eSATA, so USB backup would probably be too slow. So what is the best, or if not best most appropriate way to do bakup of a NAS. I cannot figure out what is the way forward on this. I have tried Mozy etc, but right now cloud backup is just too damn slow right now.
It will be the repository for source code and work. Which is why I am very keen to get this right first time.
I've read that the Netgear Readynas is very reliable and robust, for both hardware and software, I have no view on whether QNAP kit is viewed in the same way. Are the extra feature set, faster CPU of the QNAP , worth £130 ?
Hope this all makes sense.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks
Aaron
I am torn between a Netgear Readynas Duo (£200, without drives), or a QNAP TS-219 (£330 without drives).
I'm planning on putting in 2 x 1Tb drives in either, using Raid1.
I've read all the superb articles that Tim has written here on backup, not doing raid etc. but i am still confused as to what my best solution for a NAS and NAS backup are ?
(As an aside I was keen as mustard to get the best 4 bay NAS, but after reading Tim's articles, quickly decided that was a bad move.)
My initial thoughts for the NAS backup, are to get another NAS, ie Readynas, or QNAP with just 1 drive in to backup to. But is that an approriate and resilient enough backup ? Neither of these units have eSATA, so USB backup would probably be too slow. So what is the best, or if not best most appropriate way to do bakup of a NAS. I cannot figure out what is the way forward on this. I have tried Mozy etc, but right now cloud backup is just too damn slow right now.
It will be the repository for source code and work. Which is why I am very keen to get this right first time.
I've read that the Netgear Readynas is very reliable and robust, for both hardware and software, I have no view on whether QNAP kit is viewed in the same way. Are the extra feature set, faster CPU of the QNAP , worth £130 ?
Hope this all makes sense.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks
Aaron