45 Drives products are NAS's?

[Tcrumpen]

I've been tasked with doing some price research for a server mounted 12 bay NAS and i recall watching Linus's server room upgrade and petabyte product when he mentioned protocase and 45 drives but he didn't mention if these devices are NAS's or conceptually just a really big external hard drive

 

Also if anyone has any good brands that would be useful, preferable if they are UK based or ship overseas

[leadeater]

45 Drives makes rackmount chassis along with fully configured systems to use how you would like to use them, typically as a NAS. It's the OS that you install on to them and how you use it that makes it a NAS more than the hardware itself.

 

Just contact 45 Drives directly and they'll help you out.

 

Also have a look at options from QNAP, Synology, HPE StoreEasy. I've used QNAP a lot and find they have the best hardware for the price and has excellent software, most people recommend Synology but I think QNAP is better.

 

Also be careful or rack depth, make sure what you are going to buy actually fits.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

"servers" are technically just pc's. it's the operating system that makes a server a NAS. you could install something like freenas on any pc, and make a nas out of it.