No High Availability?
... Any HA options such as replication, heart beat etc.
Iomega has bounded into the SME NAS and iSCSI storage market with a sub-$1,800 box, taking on all other low-end NAS suppliers at their own game, and signifying that unified file and block storage is the way to go. The StorCenter Pro ix4-200r is a 1U rackmount, 4-bay, 4TB (hot-swap SATA drives), gigabit Ethernet product, …
The Thecus N5200pro has dual 1G ports (with support for bonding or failover) and iSCSI, FTP, CIFS & NFS, jumbo frames, etc. Works quite well in my experiance.
But what about performance? I see NFS write speeds of 20MB/sec and read at 40MB/sec using RAID-5 over 5*1TB disks with single 1GB port used, can this box do any better?
I've had two different devices from Iomega - both were poorly designed (or designed to be cheap rather than repairable), and poorly made out of cheap materials in crucial parts. Both were expensive and used expensive media - both failed early in life, and in such a way as to chew up the expensive media.
Never again.
Are there really other boxes with all what Iomega offers in this package ?
* Rack mountable
* SAN + iSCSI
* RAID 5 & 10
* Backed by EMC or other Enterprise class provider
However it's a pity there is no option for redundancy (e.g. dual NIC).