Intro

In the beginning of this year I, was looking for a new NAS for my home lab. I was curious to what was possible with NAS devices these days. I had a QNAP TS110 back then so I knew something about the NAS-es and what they could do but that was home-use orientated.

So because of the search for a new NAS I thought; let’s share my research with you. And because I would blog about it; let’s do it properly and really test drive the different NASes. I approached 6 vendors that are active and known in the SOHO NAS market; Cisco, Drobo, Iomega, Netgear, QNAP and Synology. Only Drobo couldn’t help us out with a test unit in that period so they are excluded. All the other vendors were able to send us a test unit so thanks for that. Netgear even was so friendly to supply us with 4 proper disks that I could use during the tests, so kudos to Netgear for that!

This is the 3^rd comparison that VirtualFuture releases. The previous 2 were comparison charts for Application Virtualization products. This is the first comparison that isn’t really virtualization based but intended for a wider audience. Because of that I’ve chosen not to release this as a whitepaper but as a series of blog posts; I hope you enjoy it! … Continue Reading