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Davesworld · 07-12-2005, 03:22 AM

I like the 1u rackmount best. For less money, the Dell 725n can be had for under a grand and you can put any nas os on it you want. It is similar to if not the same as a Snap 4400 which can easily go to 1.6TB. The Dell 745n is a bit faster plus sata raid. Once you get above the snap 4100 class, you can temporarily use a keyboard mouse and monitor. If the 4100 had at least a null modem port, you could really get into it as well but there is a connector inside that we don't know what it does. I am about to test a seagate 160GB drive on a 4100 and see where I can get. I upgraded to OS4 earlier which supposedly updated the bios for the promise controllers. I have since updated to more recent versions of os4 and will use the reinit nocore argument after booting up and see if I can get over 137.

07-12-2005, 03:22 AM	#3
Davesworld Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, Wa Posts: 45	I like the 1u rackmount best. For less money, the Dell 725n can be had for under a grand and you can put any nas os on it you want. It is similar to if not the same as a Snap 4400 which can easily go to 1.6TB. The Dell 745n is a bit faster plus sata raid. Once you get above the snap 4100 class, you can temporarily use a keyboard mouse and monitor. If the 4100 had at least a null modem port, you could really get into it as well but there is a connector inside that we don't know what it does. I am about to test a seagate 160GB drive on a 4100 and see where I can get. I upgraded to OS4 earlier which supposedly updated the bios for the promise controllers. I have since updated to more recent versions of os4 and will use the reinit nocore argument after booting up and see if I can get over 137.