Disclaimer: not Fedora specific.
In a former life we ran our backups to QNAP NASes in a data centre. They
were nice boxes with a little LED console strip on the front and for
when desperate, a video out and a USB socket which would take a keyboard
on the back. We were happy.
On that basis we obtained a more recent QNAP for a client. No LED text
strip on the front, just a few cryptic LEDs, and nothing on the back of
any use. So when it crashes its basicly a black box, maddening.
Has anyone any recommendations for nice NASes for a small office?
Requirements:
- some kind of useful front panel - basic status at the very least,
ideally some degree of control if it isn't speaking on the network
- 10G ethernet, ideally 2
- NFS support
- something like 8 3.5" SATA drive bays, hot swap
- can run XFS natively inside - ext3 and ext4 are fragile, and we're
using iSCSI to do XFS for the large backup volume at present
- preferable capable of iSCSI, though if they do XFS inside then just
NFS will do us
The QNAPs seem to have a billion features but are a recovery nightmare
to us when they have a failure (not a drive failure, that's the usual
swap in a new drive RAID shuffle, I mean a crash or filesystem repair
situation). The current QNAP is a few years old, BTW, but we're unhappy.
Suggestions and/or experiences welcome.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>