[Novalug] Inexpensive NAS devices

[David Zakar]

I get the impression that the OP is looking for an entirely new device.
FreeNAS is just an OS.

Anyways, another useful page:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190

-DMZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Hart [mailto:jhart at kevla.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:10 PM
To: sh33p at blisteringsheep.com
Cc: novalug at calypso.tux.org
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Inexpensive NAS devices

Freenas....

You would have to see if GigE supported.  Everything else you want to use is
available/supported.

Jay

> I need to expand the storage available on my home
> network (several Linux boxes, couple of WinXP boxes, 1
> Mac OS/X and 1 Solaris box).  Right now I'm using an
> external (small and full) SCSI disk attached to a
> Linux box that is exported via Samba and NFS, plus
> some internal IDE drives.  This box doesn't have
> USB-2.0.
>
> All of the consumer grade NAS devices are interesting.
>  Anyone care to share their
> experiences/recommendations?  My ideal appliance would
> have GigE.  All I really need is SMB and NFS.  FTP
> would be nice once in a while, but not really
> necessary.  I'm ambivalent about RAID ability.
>
> Thanks!
> Ed
>
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