Editor's choice: SnapServer
4500It's a bit of a tussle between the least expensive NAS tested and the most expensive in terms of cost per GB.
At AU$38.85/GB the Sun StorEdge 5210 is around four times more expensive than the SnapServer but the Sun is king in terms of data throughput.
The Sun has great expansion potential in that you can attach up
to 42 drives, however Sun's largest drive was just 146GB at the
time of testing which reduces the total capacity to 6.1TB
raw.
The SnapServer 4500 at just over AU$7000 with 750GB of RAID 5
disk capacity certainly represents great value for money in terms
of cost per GB.
Not only was the 4500 inexpensive it was also surprisingly fast
in terms of data throughput, where the 4500 did lose some of its
shine was its expansion capability, which maxes out at 3.6TB, a
respectable figure to be sure but a long way behind some of the
other NAS tested.
This article was first published in Technology & Business magazine.
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