I didn't see any adapters that would replace the ODD for 2 x 2.5 drives. I wedge an Intel SSD in the center tucked under the 16GB case-less USB flash drive. The box already has 2x1TB 3.5 drives connected to the PERC.
Running VMWare ESXi 5. It is VERY quiet. Wish it had room for more drives...
Looking through the new features of my QNAP 3.6 firmware I see SYMFORM cloud backup. I take a look at their offering and I see this RAID 96. I read the details and it looks like RAID5 at a 1MB block size. Their claim to only need 64 of 96 blocks to recover 64MB of data is a bit misleading. You...
4 x ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM Seagate
QNAP TS-419P
Faster drives won't help the Atom CPU do AES. Speeds went from 80MB/s to 30MB/s with encryption enabled. Security of the data is more important to me so I will take the speed hit.