[wellylug] Network Attached Storage

[James Sullivan]

I don't know how applicable it will be to your situation but a few weeks ago
at home my dad was looking for a NAS solution but I had a spare server
sitting around doing nothing so I threw FreeNAS on it and a short time later
it was all up and running how I wanted it.

http://www.freenas.org/

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Lindsay Hunter <lindsay at csw.co.nz> wrote:

> When I began my search, I was thinking about upgrading my local network
> to full gigabit ethernet.  I have a mixture of devices, and files sizes
> are increasing so backup and stuff becomes an issue.  19 Gb of Intunes
> is an example.  A mixture of USB2 devices, and 100 mbit switches etc.
> Time to coordinate.
>
> NAS would need to operate at close to disk transfer speeds, 1 Gb
> ethernet, be industry standard files sytems, quiet and cool.
>
> Can we do that?  With ethernet, it can be setup up a long way from the
> user which means noise is not a problem.
>
> Lindsay
>
> Xav Paice wrote:
> >
> > ----- "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.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Many angles to look at here - there's a hunky server with a platform
> > of some sort dishing out storage to other boxen (www.openfiler.com is
> > one easy option), or there's a Windows file server replacement (again
> > Openfiler, or just any distro with Samba is cool) or there's something
> > more appliance based which is harder to define.
> >
> > What sort of size/shape are you looking for?  And depending on the
> > audience, what is the need for commercial support?
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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