Opinions/experience with Unibrain NAS

[sweater]

We're looking at adding a fairly small appliance to our network for a specific project. If the need warrants it, we might want to ship the whole server holding the data off to a customer en masse. Thus, the appeal of a Snap-esque server becomes clearer.

There are two options that I can find so far to house about 1TB of data cheaply:

Snap 4500 1.6TB

This would be configured as RAID 5, so we'd only get 1.2TB out of it.

or

Unibrain FireNAS 1.6TB

Again - we'd RAID 5 it to get more "data safety".

People here have probably heard of Snap, and we've used some here (for better or for worse). But has anyone heard anything about Unibrain? The price difference is huge - roughly $1500 less for the Unibrain.

Thanks for any info...

- mike