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What is the Best product for Data Storage?

Everyday we are storing 500 MB of photos in the servers. Now there is no space in the Servers. we want store photos in separate device. somebody recomending NAS(ReadyNAS Pro) product.Can we buy this product? this is good?
what is best product in the market? and what is security for DATA?
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NAS is decent technology....Netgear is presently offering a 4 TB unit for under $2K (US Dollars) If you are storing 500MBs per day that is 2.5 Gigs worth of data every week assuming a 5 day work week or 3.5 GB for a 7 day work week. So for 500mb of new storage for 7 days a week you should consume approximatley 182GB or storage every year.  Depending upon how long you need to keep this data...4TB should last you for quite a few years.
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I agree that a simple NAS box would probably be fine, but you could always just add a JBOD to the server that your users are already uploading their images to.  You don't have to buy new either.  In recent years, we have been buying refurb products from companies like Stallard Technologies with lots of success. (http://www.stikc.com/Catalog/PowerVault-220S)

You can get a refurbished Dell PowerVault 220s with 14 73GB 15K RPM disks for under $900- with a 1 year warranty.  This would yield two 438GB (usable) RAID5 volumes.  I believe the PV220s can handle 300GB drives, so you could get up to 3.6TB (usable) for under $4000.
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which one we can select
1-ReadyNAS Pro
2-NAStorage4420pro