Storage options abound in the SMB-based NAS market

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10/25/05

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* The market for NAS devices aimed at SMBs suddenly offers real
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Today's focus:

Storage options abound in the SMB-based NAS market

By James E. Gaskin

The market for network-attached storage devices aimed at small
or midsize businesses suddenly offers some real choices with a
range of features. No longer are these devices just "boxes of
disks" with little differentiation. Companies can choose units
for size, data redundancy, innovative back-up options, a
do-it-all network unit or a combination of these features.

We recently tested four devices - Anthology Solutions' Yellow
Machine (the all-in-one unit), Infrant Technologies ReadyNAS
600, Iomega's 200d with REV drive and Netgear's Storage Central
SC101. Newcomer Infrant delivered a great product that performs
well and provides a complete management utility, and wins a
Clear Choice Award.

Infrant has a low public profile, but its ReadyNAS 600 box
greatly impressed us. Offering several RAID options, the
ReadyNAS forgoes the sleek and polished look of Buffalo
Technologies' TeraStation for a businesslike squat black box
with a fan grill above the hard drive LEDs.

The ReadyNAS acts like an older-model NAS and works quite well
when just plugged into the wall and connected to the network.
The default settings give everyone access under standard Windows
networking rules (\\ReadyNAS\ Backup and \Media are
preconfigured). The four 232G-byte drives in our test unit were
arranged as RAID-5, which left about 650G bytes of free space
(subtracting the RAID overhead and space set aside for folder
Snapshots).

To read the remainder of Infrant ReadyNAS 600's test results, as
well as those of Anthology Solutions, Iomega and Netgear, see:
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlprodrev9530>

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Gaskin can be reached at readers@gaskin.com.
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