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Originally Posted by Peter
Last week I did abandon this project for very simple reason.
I purchased BUFFALO TeraStation and it is working excellent.
Forget about this junky SnapServer from Snap Appliances.
Snap Appliances marketing strategy was to force all of us to purchase their overpriced “new” product with again some hidden limitations or expensive OS upgrade. What they missed is that there are other companies with progressive thinking and less greed.
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What you should realize is that the SnapOS-based servers are considered "legacy" products - after all, these date all the way back to Meridian Data (that's 3 owners of the Snap product line ago). Even the 4100 is a 5-year-old+ design at this point.
They were never intended to be field-upgradable. They were targeted at companies who would install it and forget about it. The fact that end users have figured out ways to expand the units and make them do new tricks is a tribute to the flexibility of the original design.
Comparing a 5- (or more) year-old design to a current product isn't really a fair comparison. Likewise, comapring any Adaptec product to an intentionally-open product isn't fair either - they're competing in very different market spaces.
I haven't looked at any of the GuardianOS-based Snap units, so I can't say if they are better performers (though I'd expect they are, simply because they're newer designs). I did look at some of Adaptec's offerings before I built my own servers from scratch, but the minute I saw they required special Adaptec drives (available in a limited number of sizes and at very high prices) I stopped looking.