When you finally decide which direction you will go in, just remember that scrutiny in research of the perfect appliance(s) and available options should ultimately sway you. Most companies selling backup and storage will have products that function similary and stay in the same ball park price...
A NAS works with the existing Ethernet infrastructure, and is a very simple and affordable addition to the network. Until recently, you needed a costly, complicated Fibre Channel infrastructure to implement even the simplest SAN. The cost to install a FC SAN storage device is at least 10 times...
Each time you connect a tape drive, be it hotswappable or other wise, control panel is where it will be visually displayed (as long as the O.S. detects it). Likewise, if your backup software is already running at the time the device is installed, you will not see it listed in the interface until...
Possibly they are simply trying to get you to tell them outright that the solution they want at the price restrictions you are under, is an impossible task. Depending on the amount of data you need to store/backup I would guess a long-term solution alone would cost you anywhere between $7-11k...
I have to agree w/comtec17 - a SAN will always be the ideal solution for storage but most medium and small businesses are either incapable or unwilling to eat the cost of introducing fiber for a true SAN .. I would definitely think along the lines of Ethernet Attached Storage. iSCSI solutions...
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