Looking For Reliable OS-less NAS

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I've got a client hard set on getting a little SOHO NAS system for his office. Only 6 computers and a couple of networked printers.

He's looking for an OS'less (OS'less meaning not running Windows, but a flavor of *nix) NAS to act as the internal FileServer for the office and BAckup drive for a few key machines. I told him we could run RAID 1 on a couple of 750GB WD blacks and get a external HDD for additional redundancy to backup the RAID just in case. Just need to set up a few Directories with certain user permissions and that's it!

He did a little digging around on Newegg and found the following:

Thecus N2100BM

and

Synology DS207+

Anyone have any experience with these? He's looking to order in the next week or so.

TIA!
 
Take a peek here, might help you out. And since when is Linux not an OS...? :D
 
I think what you meant to say is: OSless meaning a network appliance rather than a full server.
 
If your client doesn't plan on growing much then those solutions might work out reasonably well...

Otherwise they could use a server from a mainstream vendor and run...

OpenFiler, FreeNAS, ClarkConnect, eBOX...even WHS :)
 
How about the DS209+ with a couple of 2tb drives in a raid1.

This is much faster than the 207

I know he said no windows boxen but a WHS would work quite well considering you want to do backups.
You can get those hp's that are small and not much more expensive then a 209
 
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