[Ian Nalepa]

Thank you very much, Bob, for this very detailed response and all of the info!

It seems that you are pretty happy with QNAP equipment, and since you are installing it as part of your services, I’m assuming you haven’t run into any significant quality or stability concerns (otherwise you’d likely be pulling your hair out). I need to adjust my assumptions, and get past the low price. As you mentioned, it’s a little like Black Magic Design. Their site is very informative, but it also comes across as they are trying to be everything to everyone. Again, something to get past if the truth is that it can be set up to be very effective in the media production realm.

Your findings with the SanLink 3 are interesting. The read speed seems awesome, but could the slower write speed possibly be an issue with the current firmware version? You’re getting these speeds just using a single port, correct?

We actually have 1 SanLink2 which we previously used to test iSCSI connections to an existing SAN network. It seemed to work fine, but did get a little hot. Do you find yourself liking the Promise adapters better or the Sonnet?

–Ian