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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Seriously, I’d just buy a Drobo Pro and hang that off the server. In reality, file servers are seldom overloaded in the CPU or bandwidth sense, it’s usually just capacity they need.
So unless there genuine performance issues with the file server, I’d hang extra storage off it before choosing a NAS solution.
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Capacity is exactly the issue with our file server. It was built last year before someone decided that we needed to store hundreds of hours of HD video in a secure manner. I never considered just attaching storage directly to the server. That solves pretty much all the problems we have. Other than the Drobo Pro is way overkill for the storage we need now, that is a perfect solution.
I think I will suggest an eSata RAID Enclosure, like
this unless they decide they want to throw some money at it.