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If you're in the on-premises storage industry (aka NetApp, EMC), you will be amazed by the number of companies still buy networked storage arrays. They are ranging from Fortune 500 firms to extremely smaller ones like dental offices, school district, hospital... They all have one thing in common: they don't trust their data with public cloud infrastructure.

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And the hilarious part is how most of those implement a solution with less reliability and security.

What's the cheapest networked storage array that is trusted by on-premise buyers?

If you ask that way, I'd guess the answer is: For any network storage array there are at least a few on-premise buyer that trust this particular product.

I guess that there are an awful lot of companies that, out of desire to save a few bucks, will go with home-NAS-types.

Ultimately the main difference between the vendors is performance and availability - you pay a lot more to increase either of those. If you don't need either even a consumer style synology nas can work.

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