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Originally Posted by uxbod  Out of interest which model are you trying ? I have been looking at the iSCSI one. |
Low-end: Linkstation Pro Duo. Ethernet, not iSCSI. For about $310 you get a RAID1 500GB device that does Samba, http, ftp and AppleTalk (heretofore) quite reliably. We've put a number of these out at smaller clients' sites.
We also like these devices for a simple disaster recovery plan: one of these devices can be set as the backup target of another one. So, for companies with branch offices, you can locate the primary one in the server rack at the main office, and put a second one in the telco closet at a branch office.
They keep themselves in sync, so if the main office burns down, all the data is in the branch office OK. The sync works well over WAN connections too.
As the units are not much bigger than the two disk drives inside them, we train clients to try to grab them (if it is safe to do so) when the office fire alarm goes off, even if only for a fire drill.
Plus, if you need more than 500GB storage, you can plug in external USB hard drives to these devices.
Where else can you do disk-to-disk-to-(WAN)-disk backups for about $1.25 per GB all in?
Much cheaper than a pair of Clarions doing SAN replication!
All the best,
Mark
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