HA Network Attached Storage (NAS): Followup

As I mentioned at the end of my previous post (HA Network Attached Storage (NAS)), the vendor whose product I’m hoping will solve my HA NAS woes put together a demo for me last week and I must say that I was impressed!

Let’s face it, we’re only planning on spending around 6K (total) and they put together a demo for me.  That’s a class act for you.  The only other vendors even remotely interested in providing a demo were the ones charging 75K or more for their “entry-level” product that targets the SMB.  I wonder how well that marketing strategy is working?  Do you know many SMBs looking to spend 75K on a storage system?  I don’t.

Anyways, the demo was good and the servers passed my fail over tests, so we’re purchasing them.  It’s an Active-Backup config, but it will do nicely.  Especially since we’re running our current file server into the ground with our traffic growth. 
 
Oh yeah, the vendor is Aberdeen.  Check ‘em out.