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by imajes 3904 days ago
Say I wanted to do something similar, but move data around locally between two NAS appliances, but not incur a double disk charge - (i've got a pack of ~ 20 disks in NAS brand a, but i want to move to NAS brand b. The disks work in both, but need reformatting).

Does anyone know of a service where I could rent a 20TB device like snowball but not push it to S3?
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mey 3904 days ago
I know Dell has glorified portable harddrive arrays in pelican styles cases for moving data between their SAN systems. Unfortunately I don't recall the name and I don't know if they are available for rental. If you have a Dell VAR, have them ask the Dell storage group.

Edit: Correction, it doesn't appear to be an array, just single device so 1.5-2TB max. Also basically targeted at this SAN solution only.

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imajes 3904 days ago
Yeah, I need to move 20TB in one go - so i can repurpose the disks.
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Twirrim 3904 days ago
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+#spec

5 * 6TB drives, RAID5 would put you at nearly 24TB of storage, if my brain is in gear.

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cthalupa 3904 days ago
He wants to rent something temporarily, so that he can copy stuff off the drives, take them out of the nas, format them in the new nas so it's compatible, copy stuff off the rented appliance to the new nas, ship the rented thing back off.

He wants to avoid having to have to buy enough drives, etc, to hold all of the data at once

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