The network-attached storage (NAS) boxan external storage device that attaches to your. The Guardian 4400 is expected to ship early next month and will list for $5,495 for the 640GB model and $4,295 for the 480GB. Synology’s two-bay DS212+ NAS drive is a full-featured speedster with an outstanding operating system. That's important, being they're a tape company,' Nisbet said.

'I think the biggest thing is that they have the ability now, with a direct tape drive to be plugged into the back of the server, to bundle NAS with tape backup.

The snapshots eliminate the need for backup windows because the device takes the copies off the network.Īccording to Brad Nisbet, an analyst at IDC in Framingham, Mass., Quantum is moving toward bundled software-disk/tape packages to address increasingly complex network storage environments. It is equipped with a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 512 GB of RAM and two bays capable of holding 4 TB drives. ASUSTOR AS1002T 2-Bay Personal Cloud The ASUSTOR-AS1002T is a small but very affordable 2-Bay network attached storage personal cloud device. The Guardian 4400 also offers the ability to take up to 25 data 'point-in-time' data snapshots for backup and restoration. Best Network Attached Storage Under 200 1. 'It's a perfect box for workgroup collaboration.'

Fills a cornucopia of home backup and serving roles. 'It's a low-cost, primary NAS storage device that can be immediately shared between all brands of Unix, Linux, Mac or Windows,' said Vicki Vollmar, director of networked storage products marketing at Quantum. QNAP HS-453DX multimedia NAS box (unpopulated) Best NAS box for media streaming. Up to five Guardian servers can be interconnected through a Gigabit Ethernet port, where they can be backed up to a single tape drive or library, according to Quantum. But what if you dont buy a Synology NAS In that case, you can also use Mattermost on Qnap devices. The device also comes with a SCSI port and Backup Express software that can store data locally to a designated tape drive or remotely to a tape library. Unlike its predecessor, the Guardian 4400 comes with hot-swappable disk drives, dual network interface cards for redundancy and Gigabit Ethernet throughput, vs.

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