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fugrosesl
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Post subject: NAS system with JBOD
 Posted: Jun 24, 2008 - 06:02 PM CST
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My company does alot of aerial data processing and collects alot of hard drives during projects, typically several 500GB per project, as well as back-ups.
In the field we use a 4 bay Wiebetech RX system with individual eSATA connections to allow each hard-drive to be added as a seperate drive to a workstation. There is no RAID on this enclousre and it allows drives to be hotswapped as they become full and/or processing is completed.
In the office we have a need for multiple users to access each of the hard-drives across a network and I am looking for a NAS solution that will allow us to do a similar thing, without having to attach the enclosure to a specific workstation. So the NAS system should be able to take 4 (or more) hard drives (preferably without a tray), there will be no RAID, and the drives should be hot-swappable so that as work is complete and new data arrives at the office the hard-drives can be taken out and replaced with different ones. I would prefer it if the unit is desk-top mounted, i.e. not rack mountable so it will sit in the production work area not the server room.
Not sure if I am asking too much but I am yet to find anything out there that may satisfy this. Any advice as to whether this is possible or not, and pointers to a suitable solution would be much appreciated.
TIA
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NetworkGuy
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Post subject: RE: NAS system with JBOD
Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 08:34 PM CST
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| The QNAP TS-409 Pro and the Syncology DS508 might fit the bill for you- they support JBOD and the drives are hot-swappable. Also you can plug in USB drives and instantly have them shared. |
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