Good network storage

[madman045]

Im looking for a good external drive to put on a network where a server can backup to it every night.

Obviously speed & reliability are the key things, can anyone recommend any products?

Thanks

[Funkstar]

Are you looking for a basic NAS box, RAID Nas box or network attached tape?

For basic NAS i hear good thinks about the Buffalo Linkstation and the Maxtor network drives.

For RAID Nas have a look at Infrant (http://www.infrant.com) their new ReadyNAS NV is very cool and their ReadyNAS 1000 is a 1U rack system.

for more ideas look at the selection on Scan, unfortunitely i don't really know anything about any of them.

[madman045]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I wouldnt touch buffalo, a lot of sites have stopped selling them & we have had so many failures, plus there not mac compatible!

Looking at a Synology box as it needs to sit on a lan, raid isnt important at the moment, but that could change.

[Funkstar]

My knowledge of the linkstation only extends to the fact that you can easily hack them to include other apps and services on the embeded linux it runs. I had no idea about the lack on Mac support.

The Infrant boxes, although expensive, can be set up with a single drive to start with and will grow to use additional disks as they are added. With two disks you get a mirror and three of four you have something like RADI-5 (it isn't true RAID-5, but you get n-1 disks of space and parity)