[BBLISA] Recommendation for NAS appliance?

[Ian Levesque]

On Mar 2, 2010, at 6:09 PM, Paul Beltrani wrote:

> We're looking for a basic, enterprise class appliance to serve 15TB to
> 30TB of mission critical storage via NFS.   We're considering the
> offerings from NetApp and EMC but they're much more than we need. For
> example, we don't need features like mirroring or remote replication.

Your requirements are a little vague - what does "enterprise class appliance" mean to you? What features *are* important to you? What's your budget?

Are you sure you need an appliance? Is there a reason that a bunch of disks in a box couldn't serve NFS to your liking?

Ian