I really really need some help, in as plain/simple English as possible. I have been asked to solve our server issues here at work - but I have no idea (I am no way a Techie!). We (as a business) are looking for a central storage system, and have been supplied with the following 3 quotes from 3 different "computer Solutions" companies.
I have asked them to help - but naturally they want to sell me their own solution and not necessarily the best one for "us". I understand that each of the items quoted do similar things but for all I know one could be a top of the range Mercedes, one could be a good reliable run around and another could be the equivalent of a Lada! We are only a small company, with 10 users, and our data requirements are approx 50Gb/year currently expected to increase over the next few years (estimated at 20-30Gb/year). All we want is something that will store our data (currently approx 200Gb) and be able to hold our future data, be pretty robust, last at least 5 years but preferably longer.
Quote 1:
NETGEAR ReadyNAS 1100 RNR4410 - NAS - 4 TB - rack-mountable - Serial ATA-150 - HD 1 TB x 4 - RAID 0, 1, 5 - Gigabit Ethernet - 1U
This device will give you a raid 5 volume of around 750GB in size.
Quote 2 :
Netapps Storevault S500 1Tb
Quote 3:
1 off HP NAS DL100 Storage Server Providing 640Gb Raw storage
Thanks
I have asked them to help - but naturally they want to sell me their own solution and not necessarily the best one for "us". I understand that each of the items quoted do similar things but for all I know one could be a top of the range Mercedes, one could be a good reliable run around and another could be the equivalent of a Lada! We are only a small company, with 10 users, and our data requirements are approx 50Gb/year currently expected to increase over the next few years (estimated at 20-30Gb/year). All we want is something that will store our data (currently approx 200Gb) and be able to hold our future data, be pretty robust, last at least 5 years but preferably longer.
Quote 1:
NETGEAR ReadyNAS 1100 RNR4410 - NAS - 4 TB - rack-mountable - Serial ATA-150 - HD 1 TB x 4 - RAID 0, 1, 5 - Gigabit Ethernet - 1U
This device will give you a raid 5 volume of around 750GB in size.
Quote 2 :
Netapps Storevault S500 1Tb
Quote 3:
1 off HP NAS DL100 Storage Server Providing 640Gb Raw storage
Thanks