Qnap TS-559 Pro+: Familiar Network Storage With A New CPU

[FireWire2]

Why would you want that? where you can get eBOX-N from DATOptic support up to 10 drive @ $699.00 with hardware raid

 

[FireWire2]

Or DIY for that matter and use FreeNAS or Openfiler, that's not hard all all

 

[d_kuhn]

[citation][nom]FireWIre2[/nom]Why would you want that? where you can get eBOX-N from DATOptic support up to 10 drive @ $699.00 with hardware raid[/citation]

From their site it looks like 5 drives... not a bad deal even in that case but not as smoking as 10 for $700.

 

[Kewlx25]

FreeBSD + ZFS + i5 + 8GB memory = win

 

[Guest]

Only a complete fool would buy this. You could easily build a much better and cheaper box that uses a free operating system like Ubuntu, OpenFiler, FreeNAS or even old Windows XP Pro Corporate, Pirate Edition.

You could make the point that many people lack the know-how to setup something like that, as others already have. However, anybody that tech-illiterate is unlikely to buy a NAS device anyways.

 

[dealcorn]

[citation][nom]hmp_goose[/nom]I remember a time when teh Internet was going to have hyperlinks embedded in articles for clowns like me to look stuff up with.C'mon! I'm a knuckle-dragging FPS-player: I don't know what "SMB/CIFS protocols" stands for, let alone good for! Isn't there at lest a related article?[/citation]

As a more sophisticated understanding of the internet arose, the the over-reliance on hyperlinks was generally replaced by Wikipedia and its ilk. For example, their article on SMB/CIFS is spot on in this context. The downside is that some folks do not understand that they are empowered to answer their own curiosity.

 

[toadster]

how does this system fare with cheap 2TB "Green" drives? you know, the ones on sale for under $100 that spin down when not in use?

 

[FireWire2]

Well I have eBOX-N and it does support WD green