Comments on: Affordable NAS devices with iSCSI support http://www.alainfontaine.lu/blog/2009/07/affordable-nas-devices-with-iscsi-support/ Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:31:48 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: joaquimhomrighausen http://www.alainfontaine.lu/blog/2009/07/affordable-nas-devices-with-iscsi-support/comment-page-1/#comment-3565 joaquimhomrighausen Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:18:32 +0000 http://www.alainfontaine.lu/blog/?p=142#comment-3565 I was introduced to QNAP by Mark Kerr, and haven't looked back since. Their firmware upgrades keep getting better and better, and their recent products show some good design decisions.. very nice stuff indeed! I was introduced to QNAP by Mark Kerr, and haven't looked back since. Their firmware upgrades keep getting better and better, and their recent products show some good design decisions.. very nice stuff indeed!

]]> By: Andrew Humphrey http://www.alainfontaine.lu/blog/2009/07/affordable-nas-devices-with-iscsi-support/comment-page-1/#comment-3563 Andrew Humphrey Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:07:11 +0000 http://www.alainfontaine.lu/blog/?p=142#comment-3563 Heya,<br><br>When evaluating these devices, if you are considering using large drives, I would make very sure I can enable dual parity raid (or equiv). The time taken to reconstruct a 1TB drive is not inconsiderable, so the chance of a double disk failure is around 1% of reconstructions. (At least according to some vendor propaganda I read and some rough back of the envelope calcs). Check out <a href="http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/26/netapp-weighs-in-on-disks/" rel="nofollow">http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/26/netapp-weighs...</a> and it's links for a more detailed discussion.<br><br>BTW the drobo pro wins hands down on "looks like the starship enterprise" basis :-) Heya,

When evaluating these devices, if you are considering using large drives, I would make very sure I can enable dual parity raid (or equiv). The time taken to reconstruct a 1TB drive is not inconsiderable, so the chance of a double disk failure is around 1% of reconstructions. (At least according to some vendor propaganda I read and some rough back of the envelope calcs). Check out http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/26/netapp-weighs... and it's links for a more detailed discussion.

BTW the drobo pro wins hands down on “looks like the starship enterprise” basis :-)

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