News - QNAP introduces eight-bay Intel Atom-powered SS-839 Pro Turbo NAS

[HEXUS]

Smallest eight-bay NAS in the market, says QNAP.

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[miniyazz]

As far as I can see, the only thing this has going for it is if you happen to have a load of laptop drives lying around, or when SSDs become as cheap as HDDs, if they're still predominantly using the 2.5" form factor. Great, 8 2.5" drives uses more power than 8 3.5" drives. But on the flip side, you only need two 2TB 3.5" drives to have equivalent storage space to 8 500GB 2.5" drives - all of a sudden, it's not looking like such a great space saver, noise saver, money saver, power saver, or any other kind of saver.

[Funkstar]

Rather than SSDs you could use Velociraptors for a potentially very fast NAS box. But that relies on the rest of the system being able to keep up.

you might need 4x 500GB 2.5" drives for a single 2TB 3.5" drive, but if you have 5 little ones, you also have some redundancy in there, something you don't have with the single 2TB drive.

It is a very specialist device, but I can see the apeal

[miniyazz]

Rather than SSDs you could use Velociraptors for a potentially very fast NAS box. But that relies on the rest of the system being able to keep up.

you might need 4x 500GB 2.5" drives for a single 2TB 3.5" drive, but if you have 5 little ones, you also have some redundancy in there, something you don't have with the single 2TB drive.

It is a very specialist device, but I can see the apeal

Yes, some redundancy, but if you wanted redundancy you'd put two 1TB drives in instead, for example. Would work out cheaper too - just checking Scan, two 1tb drives - under £120. Four 500GB 2.5" drives - just under £260. Sorry, I'm not seeing the benefit.

[aidanjt]

Yes, some redundancy, but if you wanted redundancy you'd put two 1TB drives in instead, for example. Would work out cheaper too - just checking Scan, two 1tb drives - under £120. Four 500GB 2.5" drives - just under £260. Sorry, I'm not seeing the benefit.

8 300GB raptors would give you 2,100GB effective RAID5 capacity, redundency, and performance that would make you wet your pants. Usefulness?.. Enterprise iSCSI storage backend for databases and the like?

You're thinking too much like a light home NAS user who'd never need more than a Synology CS407e.