Storage Solutions 

• Experience – Crap shoot, shoot the breeze, etc. 
• Best Brands – Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo,  EMC ???, PROFIIIIT 
• Best Deals – The Server Store (yes, it's down the street :D), Ebay, CraigsList, junkyard, etc, Micro Center. 

 

Platforms 

• Windows – Server 2012R2 or 2016 storage solutions 
  • SMB  
• Synology – The G.O.A.T. -- Deal with it 
• FreeBSD/FreeNAS -- Well, the actual G.O.A.T. ;) - On that ZFS time.  
• AWS 
  • Glacier 
  • S3 

 

Medium 

• ZFS 
• NFS 
• SMB 
• SAN 
• NAS