Trouble with narrowing it down.

[summit]

So I am in the market for a rack mountable NAS, and I believe I have it narrowed down to about 3 which seem to suit my needs well. What I have invisioned is to buy a 4 drive NAS, use 2 of the drives for RAID1 for critical data protection for our data server through a gigabit network connection, then use the other 2 drives as my own personal off site backup for my home PC through FTP connection, can this be done? I would also like to use it as a temporary file server for the times I need to take the main file server down, since it will already have the data on the drives correct?

I have it narrowed down to

Synology RS409
Buffalo Terrastation 3
QNAP TS-439U-SP

Can anyone make some reccomendations as I am having a hard time deciding between the 3. Any problems with what I want to set up?

Thanks!

 

[thiggins]

As long as the product you are considering supports multiple volumes, then your plan should work. The QNAP and Synology do support multiple volumes. Not sure about the Buffalo...I'll check.

 

[summit]

thank you, from my understanding the Buffalo Terrastation 3 is the lowest performer of the group, so if they are all able to do what I want I guess it comes down to performance vs price.

I have priced them out to all within a few dollars, so I guess I should go with the best performer of the group which seems to be the QNAP TS-439U-SP, does this come with the kit to attach it to the rack do you know? I noticed with the synology RS409 you had to purchase the rail kit seperatly to attach it to you rack.

And thanks for your help!

 

[thiggins]

I have priced them out to all within a few dollars, so I guess I should go with the best performer of the group which seems to be the QNAP TS-439U-SP, does this come with the kit to attach it to the rack do you know?

Picture on Newegg seems to show sliding rails and brackets are included.

 

[summit]

thank you, looks like I have my selection.

 

[thiggins]

BTW, Buffalo just replied that the Terastations do support multiple volumes.

 

[summit]

One final question, the TS-439U-SP is basically a rack mount version of the QNAP T5-439 Pro thats rated quite highly?

 

[thiggins]

One final question, the TS-439U-SP is basically a rack mount version of the QNAP T5-439 Pro thats rated quite highly?

That is correct.