HP StorageWorks NAS 1000s
The HP StorageWorks NAS 1000 is virtually the same unit as the Snap Appliance Server 4500. That's because it is: HP OEMs this product. The only major difference between the two is the price tag. You could buy an HP for around $14,000 or you could buy the equivalent Snap device for less than $6K. This is quite extraordinary to say the least.
The hard drives used were 250GB Maxtor IDE drives. HP uses approximately six manufacturers to supply its hard drives so you may end up with different hard drives from the ones we received.
Inside the unit was an identical floor plan of the Snap Server. The HP however was equipped with the faster 2.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor.
It took us a little longer than expected to get the HP running. HP doesn't include a utility like Snap that locates your NAS. Instead the user guide tells you to open up an Internet browser and enter the serial number of the unit as well as a specified port number. We were unlucky where someone else had used HP unit before us and had changed the defaults. We couldn't locate the NAS through the browser; instead we had to use configure the NAS from the console. With that said, you can configure all these NAS devices via the console.
The HP was surprisingly slower than the Snap Appliance device. Even though they were shipped with almost identical hardware, the difference would rest with the two OSes used. HP uses a Windows OS while Snap a Linux-based OS.
| Product | HP StorageWorks NAS 1000s |
| Price | $9935.20 |
| Vendor | HP |
| Phone | 13 23 47 |
| Web | www.hp.com.au |
| Interoperability |  |
| Futureproofing |  |
| Supports all standard protocols. | |
| ROI |  |
| Relatively little expansion potential, improved by the external SCSIconnector. | |
| Service |  ½ |
| Expensive for its features andperformance. | |
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