SoHo NAS With Good Network Throughput? 517
An anonymous reader writes "I work at a small business where we need to move around large datasets regularly (move onto test machine, test, move onto NAS for storage, move back to test machine, lather-rinse-repeat). The network is mostly OS X and Linux with one Windows machine (for compatibility testing). The size of our datasets is typically in the multiple GB, so network speed is as important as storage size. I'm looking for a preferably off-the shelf solution that can handle a significant portion of a GigE; maxing out at 6MB is useless. I've been looking at SoHo NAS's that support RAID such as Drobo, NetGear (formerly Infrant), and BuffaloTech (who unfortunately doesn't even list whether they support OS X). They all claim they come with a GigE interface, but what sort of network throughput can they really sustain? Most of the numbers I can find on the websites only talk about drive throughput, not network, so I'm hoping some of you with real-world experience can shed some light here."
Re:Cmon people... (Score:3, Funny)
slashdot apparently also ate the 'e' in 'ate' :-)
Re:To this whole chain of comments, I would like (Score:1, Funny)
... to say that software RAID is almost invariably a poor solution. It is woefully slow compared to even a slow hardware RAID implementation.
Please cure your ignorance here [linux.yyz.us].
Or simply test some systems before you talk nonsense.
Spend a few bucks and get the right hardware. It is not expensive these days.
Are you selling raid controllers or are you one who actually believe their marketing bullshit?
Re:SMB (Score:5, Funny)
The user believed he had increased performance, because his switch said "GigE" on it
Does his Cat 6 say "Monster Cable"?