Synology CS407?

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kandor

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Hi,

I'm interested in this NAS box. Any thoughts good or bad? I want to store solidworks documents on it and work on it on my LAN. Some soldiworks files are pretty huge 50 to 100 mb in size. I want to make sure it is fast enough in a raid 5, or maybe I should set it up in raid1 instead. Also - it seems it wont work with terabyte drives?

Thanks,
 
My company has one, I am looking to get one for personal use myself!

kandor, 100mb file sizes shouldn't be an issue for any NAS box really. And unless you need them uber-fast, the speed differences on such, what is now considered, a small amount of data are barely going to be noticeable.

When I pointed out to the IT guy buying it that it doesn't support TB drives, he showed he two TB drives plugged into the puppy! It is now our main storage device for 80% of our company.

I don't think they "officially" support the drives yet, but they are working for most people from what I have read.

I took a look at the UI and it is just....sweet. I don't have anything to compare it against, but I really liked the look of it.

Yes, I know...two posts resurrecting a dead thread. Sue? :D Or add some advice!
 
Looks really pricey for what it is. For the same price at newegg you get an HP MediaSmart server with Windows Home Server with 500gb harddrive, $40 more for 1TB. You could also build your own and get more storage for the same price.

Read about WHS, I think you would be much happier with something like this than with a simple NAS box - http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/whs.asp
 
I have read about WHS, and for the more simple minded or those who don't want to be bothered it is a great thing! Microsoft put out a really good product with WHS, have heard a lot of great things about it. +1 for Drive Extender.

I don't consider this particular NAS box to be simple though, has a lot of advanced options to tinker with.

The Synology solutions are great because they are compact, easy to maintain, no PC needed. A lot less footprint than you would have with most computers that can fit four HDDs.

There was one main difference I argued with on another forum somewhere( yes, there are other forums! :p ) and for the life of me I cannot remember what it was, great eh?
 
heres a review

Personally I would not get one. write performance over gbe is just too slow for my liking. 15MB/s on RAID5, and RAID5 read was only 24MB/s

I get around 70 MB/s on my WHS boxes.

Those HP WHS are cheap can do everything that a Server2K3 box can are same price and faster.
 
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