ReadyNAS Value Added Resellers

PapaBear wrote:

There are still VAR's as a few have posted on the forums about setting up units for clients. Technically I don't know that eAegis was really a VAR as they seemed more of a full service retailer. They would sell you a unit with the drives installed and burned in for 72 hours, but did no real customized set ups that I recall. And of course they would not bring the unit to your office and set it up. Of course I remember the days when a retailer would set up a computer and burn it in for 24-48 hours before returning it to the box and shipping it to you. Those days seem to be gone.

NCIX (in Canada) still does this. They're great to their customers.


Although not approved, if you can find Hitachi consumer grade 4TB drives, they will probably work fine in your NAS. According to the guys at BackBlaze, Hitachi's consumer drives have been the least problematic when it comes to things like TLER/CCTL timeouts, and generally work the best with consumer RAID cards. They have the lowest number of array dropouts, and within the first 1.5 years of use for thousands of drives they have had under a 1% failure rate. That's impressive.
http://ncix.ca/products/?sku=67570

I had seen these as low as $240 on Newegg, but they are now sold out.

The only thing I can't speak to is how ready NetGear's NAS's are for > 16TB volumes. I recall hearing there were some expansion issues beyond 16TB in size, which could be an issue with a 6x4TB setup?