[Novalug] Inexpensive NAS devices

[Brandon Saxe]

What chipset do these cards use? NEC has been the only
reliable chipset for me.

--Brandon

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at gathman.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, William Warren wrote:
> 
> > you can easily and cheaply install a pci usb 2.0
> card and throw in two huge 
> > hard disks and run then under freenas or any linux
> distro of your choice 
> > under mdadm raid 1 and have your NAS much cheaper,
> and faster in terms of 
> > performance.
> 
> I've gone through several brands of cheap pci usb
> 2.0 card - all of which 
> have generated NMIs (PCI bus error) after a week or
> so of operation.  They were
> all made in China (e.g. Belkin is one name I
> remember).  (Snap generalization
> here, sorry.)  I finally found a cheap brand that is
> rock solid - the Star
> brand, made in Taiwan.  I have two Star cards in
> there now that have given me
> no problems.  Uptime 2 months and counting.
> 
> YMMV
> 
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>  	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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