Hi all !
First of all, here is a little idea of my personnal setup :
Workstation PC :
Many OSes : Windows Server, Qubes, Fedora 19, Windows 8, ESXi.... I like to make some tests on it.
Config :
P8P67 WS Revolution
Core i7 2700K 4.5 GHz
16 GB RAM
RAID 0 SSDs Crucial M4 128 GB
RAID 1 Seagate 7200.14 2 TB
RAID 1 WD 500 GB
As you can see, I have a lot of storage. My PCH is practically fully loaded (1 spare SATA remaining).
I also have a MacBook Pro and my girlfriend also has a MacBook Air (2 Time Machine Backups)
My father has a Windows 7 PC.
I have a Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-L switch. Every computer above are wired to it.
I have an Asus RT-N16 which only serves as a Wireless Access Point and default gateway.
Here is a link to what my home network is most likely resemble in the near future : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/j17g.jpg/
So, I need more storage, while remaining safe (that's why I have RAID 1 arrays). I store more and more data from clients (got my own business) who backups important things on my server so the 2 TB RAID 1 array dedicated to storage is becoming full.
And I want to centralize all my data externally to my workstation, so it would be OS-independent, limiting downtime and allowing me to fully play with my PC.
I first though to an LSI RAID Card (9271) to make a large RAID 5 array on it (since integrated PCH is not really suited for RAID 5). It would be fast, but still OS-dependent for services.
So I think that a NAS would be the right thing to buy (if there any advice on that point, please let me know !)
So I found that the two most popular brands are QNAP and Synology.
I made some researches and it seems like Synology currently has the lead. Personally, I compared both solutions and the OS of Synology and features seems more interesting, more well-done than QNAP.
So I'm looking for advice that would confirm this choice of Synology over QNAP.
Then, I spotted the Synology 412+ model : http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS412+&lang=us
It's VMWare, Citrix, Windows Server 2012 ready (I do a lot of virtualization so I'll use it to store VMs), has many server features (FTP encrypted, VPN server, DHCP server, etc), real cloud solution. Hardware-wise, it has a powerful dual-core Intel Atom and most importantly a dual Gigabit Link for Link Aggregation. So speed is here, especially with the switch I have.
So, according to all I have written, would this be good for my needs?
I would put in that 4 Seagate 3 TB NAS HDD : http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/nas-hdd/?sku=ST3000VN000
Thank you very much for any advice ! This is quite an investment (~1200 $ !) and I don't want to waste my money.
Thanks to all !
Ghost26
First of all, here is a little idea of my personnal setup :
Workstation PC :
Many OSes : Windows Server, Qubes, Fedora 19, Windows 8, ESXi.... I like to make some tests on it.
Config :
P8P67 WS Revolution
Core i7 2700K 4.5 GHz
16 GB RAM
RAID 0 SSDs Crucial M4 128 GB
RAID 1 Seagate 7200.14 2 TB
RAID 1 WD 500 GB
As you can see, I have a lot of storage. My PCH is practically fully loaded (1 spare SATA remaining).
I also have a MacBook Pro and my girlfriend also has a MacBook Air (2 Time Machine Backups)
My father has a Windows 7 PC.
I have a Cisco WS-C2960S-24TS-L switch. Every computer above are wired to it.
I have an Asus RT-N16 which only serves as a Wireless Access Point and default gateway.
Here is a link to what my home network is most likely resemble in the near future : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/716/j17g.jpg/
So, I need more storage, while remaining safe (that's why I have RAID 1 arrays). I store more and more data from clients (got my own business) who backups important things on my server so the 2 TB RAID 1 array dedicated to storage is becoming full.
And I want to centralize all my data externally to my workstation, so it would be OS-independent, limiting downtime and allowing me to fully play with my PC.
I first though to an LSI RAID Card (9271) to make a large RAID 5 array on it (since integrated PCH is not really suited for RAID 5). It would be fast, but still OS-dependent for services.
So I think that a NAS would be the right thing to buy (if there any advice on that point, please let me know !)
So I found that the two most popular brands are QNAP and Synology.
I made some researches and it seems like Synology currently has the lead. Personally, I compared both solutions and the OS of Synology and features seems more interesting, more well-done than QNAP.
So I'm looking for advice that would confirm this choice of Synology over QNAP.
Then, I spotted the Synology 412+ model : http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS412+&lang=us
It's VMWare, Citrix, Windows Server 2012 ready (I do a lot of virtualization so I'll use it to store VMs), has many server features (FTP encrypted, VPN server, DHCP server, etc), real cloud solution. Hardware-wise, it has a powerful dual-core Intel Atom and most importantly a dual Gigabit Link for Link Aggregation. So speed is here, especially with the switch I have.
So, according to all I have written, would this be good for my needs?
I would put in that 4 Seagate 3 TB NAS HDD : http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/hdd/nas-hdd/?sku=ST3000VN000
Thank you very much for any advice ! This is quite an investment (~1200 $ !) and I don't want to waste my money.
Thanks to all !
Ghost26
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