Looking for small business NAS

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Current storage usage is at around 6GB. We would like to move archiving there and consolidate some data so I would expect that to jump initially to 10-12GB. This is mostly lots of documents and jpegs. Any way we cut it the amount of storage is going to be overkill.

I'm thinking something like 500GB low power WD Green drives. 4 of them, RAID5 across 3 drives + hot spare. That's a pretty typical setup right?

Desire SMB, windows share communication. Mapped network drive for example.

NTFS file system. All of our systems are NT based, mostly XP. It's also more robust in case of errors, fragmentation, and sudden power loss for whatever reason. Most NAS's are FAT32 only due to them running linux on them to manage the RAID?

Hrmmmm. Was eyeing some things from newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...escription=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=

The Synology products look interesting. But I think they are FAT32 =(

Ideas? Opinions and experiences?
 
More research. The Thecus and Symology NAS's don't use FAT32 as I assumed. Use ext3 or XFS. Which are linux file systems, that support large file format and journaling. Maybe that's just fine then.
 
Thoughts?

Thecus N5200PRO, $700
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822102016

And if we could get 2 network drops added to someone cube, or in the lab somewhere it would have load balancing, potentially a 200mbit share speed. 6 users, unfortunately only 100mbit infrastructure. And the 6 users are stretched far separated throughout the facilities.

5x Seagate Enterprise Class SATA Drives 500GB, $99
(4x for RAID6 + hot spare)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148294

Uninterruptible power?
420VA APC Smart UPS $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842101009
 
If you only need 12 GB why are you looking at 1TB+ solutions?

I'd just do RAID 1 of two enterprise class drives.. Or RAID 10 if you need speed. The "loss" of half the storage size doesn't matter if you don't need that space, and will give you better performance and equal reliability without the complexity of a more complicated RAID setup.
 
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