QNAP Launches 8-Drive Rack-Mounted NAS

[exfileme]

This diskless NAS is datacenter and cloud-ready.

QNAP Launches 8-Drive Rack-Mounted NAS : Read more

 

[Mirth]

Some information on if the disks supported are SATA or SAS would have been nice.

Other bells and whistles...

Managing the servers for a medium-sized manufacturing business I can tell you that dual power supplies and e-mail notification are considered bare minimum requirements, not bells and whistles. And having only two Gigabit LAN ports would rule it out for any applications with a serious disk performance requirement, which for us rules out our VMware servers.


The only thing that looks even somewhat interesting is the QPKG plug-ins. But I'm trying to figure out why I would use their unpatchable plug-ins instead of spinning off a Linux VM and running a patchable (and customizable to my heart's content) version.

 

[spoofedpacket]

Mirth, if you are looking for "serious performance" in VMware with 8-SATA drives of any kind-- your entire definition of performance is very different than mine.

Get a HP Lefthand solution with SAS drives, or something, for VMware. Not these cheesy consumer toys.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

seems more like a press release than a news article.

 

[house70]

Had the QNAP 509 before; not bad while it worked, but died out right after warranty expired.
Hope this one is more reliable.