Solid State NAS

[vjeltz]

I have a problem I thought the Anand crowd may be able to answer. I run IT for a medium sized company with two satellite offices. We have been doing site to site VPN for both locations and have managed to keep a small server in both offices. However, one of my remote sites had been using a hosting company upstairs to maintain their server.

Now here is the issue, we will no longer be using this hosting company and will instead have their equipment placed in a closet in our satellite office. This closet is not environmentally controlled, so I am hesitant about placing anything there that is not solid state. Currently we will place our Cisco 3000 concentrator and a procurve switch into this closet.

Because most of the office functionality will be tunneled through our central location, I don't need to worry about hosting SQL, exchange or any other heavy hitters. I would however like some type of local storage to allow for efficient deployment of software packages and updates.

So what are my options? I have looked at solid state Nas solutions but am unable to find alot of offerings. What about slower hard drives? I feel these may still produce too much heat. I also want to be sure that the NAS controller does not produce an exorbitant amount of heat itself.

Thank you in advance for any opinions or advice.

 

[myocardia]

Welcome to anandtech. While most of us around here like to keep our hard drives somewhat cool, heat doesn't really become a danger for them until they get up around 60C or so. And as long as the case your server is in has case fans, you'll most likely have problems with the CPU and northbridge overheating, before the hard drives overheat. BTW, adding a single vent to a central heating/air conditioning system doesn't cost very much money, and would be a wise investment for your company to make.