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Purchasing ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless
Hello, I'm an IT consultant for a small law firm. The firm is using about 3TB of storage and increasing. I'm currently thinking of purchasing 2 ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless units and I have a couple...
OP, if you are setting this up for a professional lawfirm, I highly recommend Enterprise disks. Nothing good can come of value engineering and using consumer grade disks. If you have a problem, and the fault is disk related, any other IT guy will immediately remark on the use of consumer grade disks. For one, its been my experience when exchanging Enterprise disks under warranty that the OEM will work with you on the replacement. I have had several brand new replacements sent over the years, including one just last week. And, Enterprise disks are typically built better, have better specs and URE rates.
Consumer disk exchanges can be pot luck. Sometimes you get the same model, other times they send you an equivalent, and that equivalent may not be on the HCL. Your ability to demand a certain model is less with consumer disks.
As far a backup/sync between the NAS units is concerned, you need to be concerned with in use files. Files copied when a user (or more than one user) is using the file during the copy process. Results can be unpredictable. I recommend you look @ solutions that will provide versioning and maintaining x number of deleted files for a period of days.
Take a look @ http://www.Egntye.com. They have a solution that integrates with the Readynas as the local cloud.
Alternatively look @ http://www.box.com Business/Enterprise plans. The other option that comes to mind is MS Exchange, but unless they have a Win Server it can get pricey for hosted exchange and 3TB of data.
Consumer disk exchanges can be pot luck. Sometimes you get the same model, other times they send you an equivalent, and that equivalent may not be on the HCL. Your ability to demand a certain model is less with consumer disks.
As far a backup/sync between the NAS units is concerned, you need to be concerned with in use files. Files copied when a user (or more than one user) is using the file during the copy process. Results can be unpredictable. I recommend you look @ solutions that will provide versioning and maintaining x number of deleted files for a period of days.
Take a look @ http://www.Egntye.com. They have a solution that integrates with the Readynas as the local cloud.
Alternatively look @ http://www.box.com Business/Enterprise plans. The other option that comes to mind is MS Exchange, but unless they have a Win Server it can get pricey for hosted exchange and 3TB of data.
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