[wellylug] Network Attached Storage

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

The dlink 323 home nas has a very good community for their alternative  
image much like the options for the linksys wrt54gl. Don't go for a  
linksys nas 200 bought one of those and they are rubbish.



On 17/02/2009, at 8:26 AM, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:01 +1300, Lindsay Hunter wrote:
>> Has anyone here given thought to network attached storage with  
>> linux at
>> an affordable level?  The commercial offerings seem to be lacking.
>
> What sort of target audience?
>
>
> If you are talking about Linux-based replacements to commercial
> enterprise NASes, you can easily build a Linux server with RAID and
> plenty of hard drives.
>
> Data can be made available at the block level with technologies such  
> as
> iSCSI, ATAoE or GNBD.
>
> Or you can provide a network filesystem such as NFS or SMB/CIFS.
>
> I just use a large server full of hard drives. This is a bit noisy,  
> but
> if you are looking for a lower power, quieter solution, a PC based  
> of a
> mini ITX board could be just what you want.
>
>
> If you are looking for a cheap home NAS replacement under $500 or  
> so, a
> second hand server may do the trick, but power consumption might be a
> bit high.
>
>
> regards,
> jethro
>
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