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Networkable Hard Drive (NAS) Suggestions?

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by pcts4you

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I have a client that wants me to recommend a NAS solution for his office that's running 5 laptops, 1 XP home, 1 Vista (version ?), and 3 Win7.

Anyone have any experience with known issues with any particular makes/models?

Would like it to be web based user friendly for him (intermediate user) in case I am out of town during a service call.

Regards,
~C

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by darryl~

Have you thought about just connecting an eSATA drive to one of them and just sharing the drive?

You could probably pick up a 1.5 or 2 TB external SATA drive fairly cheap....put an eSATA card in one of the Windows 7 machines that will always be on.....not very "professional" but if they're just looking to share a drive & a bunch of files amongst themselves....that'd be pretty cost effective.

If the computer was always on....you could remote into it from out of town if you were away.

Just a thought....I haven't much experience with NAS.

by markp24

Hi

I have used Drobo units for alot of small offices, they work great, there very easy to use.
take a look at them at www.drobo.com
sounds like you may want to look at the Drobo S or FS models
they can take any size drive, mix and match, hot swapping etc,

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