NAS Buying Guide
NAS StorInt(tm) Buying Guide
There are many Network Attached Storage (NAS) buying guides available today presenting themselves as objective, fact based comparisons. I try my best to avoid opinion in our buying guide but probably fail more than I suspect.
One thing you won’t find here is a “best NAS system”. There are just too many variables for most application environments to claim one best storage system for everyone. So if you searching for that, please go elsewhere.
However, you will find lot’s of NAS performance data here, charted and cut in as many ways as I deem fit to judge NAS system performance. I believe performance data, using published and audited results, is as objective as one can get.
Also, I have supplied extensive tables identifying system capacities, features, and functionality covering 47 NAS systems. I know there are many more out there, but I had to stop somewhere. Nonetheless, you will find all the major vendors (Dell, EMC, HP, HDS, IBM, Oracle and NetApp) represented here as well as a smattering of a few others. It’s not exhaustive and wasn’t meant to be but I do believe somewhere in this list one can find the right NAS storage for their data center.
NAS Buying Guide Overview
Our NAS Buying Guide provides a detailed description of NAS system technology, functionality and performance to help IT staff better understand NAS capabilities, compare storage system features and rank storage performance. Specifically, the guide helps storage and system admins:
- Understand NAS system technology functionality, features and capabilities
- Compare NAS storage characteristics and performance
- Select NAS solutions that best fits for your application needs, and
- Costs $196 plus shipping
NAS Solution Buying Guide Author
SCI’s NAS Buying Guide was written by Ray Lucchesi, a 30 year storage industry veteran, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in file storage, and an award-winning speaker and frequent author on storage industry topics. At his former employer (StorageTek) Ray developed and/or managed the engineering of enterprise class storage systems for over 20 years and has been an highly respected, storage industry analyst since then. Ray also publishes a free monthly newsletter which discusses storage performance results and major storage announcements (sign up Newsletter page)
NAS Solution Buying Guide Product Description
Our NAS Buying Guide evolved from an article Ray did for Storage Magazine on “NAS Consolidation Options” (see our Articles page). In that article we focused on larger enterprise class NAS systems but have broaden that discussion to mid range and smaller NAS storage for the Buying Guide.
We are currently on our 3rd version of the NAS Buying Guide (previously named Briefing) and intend to update it every quarter after we review the latest SPECsfs2008 performance results in our newsletter. Previous versions focused more on NAS storage performance rankings and how to obtain the best performance from existing NAS systems. In this guide we decided to take the approach to provide the best, most objective information we could find to support the NAS storage purchasing decision.
SCI’s NAS Buying Guide
- Consists of 30 pages of text, product comparison tables and performance charts
- Discusses over 16 advanced NAS system technology features,
- Includes 4 pages of product tables, comparing 47 traditional, scale out and cluster file system solutions using 25 system characteristics
- Includes 7 NAS system performance charts covering Top 20 SPECsfs2008(r) performers for NFS and CIFS (SMB) systems,
- Comes as a spiral bound document
NAS Buying Guide discounts available
SCI’s NAS Buying Guide is often purchased with our SAN Storage Buying Guide and if both are purchased at the same time, we provide a 10% discount (see our Products page ~1/2 way down for details). When used together, the two briefings provide an in-depth understanding of both the NAS and SAN shared networked storage, infrastructure solutions.
If you are interested in an even more significant discount off list price for providing a customer testimonial on our NAS Buying Guide, please give us a call at +1-720-221-7270.
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