[wellylug] Network Attached Storage

[Lindsay Hunter]

Having a quick look at the review, your comments are widely shared.  
Slow reads and writes and proprietary formats and operating systems.  
Anyone else tried FreeNAS.  It seems to address the issues except that 
based on FreeBSD, it has problems with Fat32 which should not be a 
problem.  :-)

L

Rimu Atkinson wrote:
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>> However, and this is a big thing for home use, there are 
>> router/switch devices out at Dick Smith that can do router, switch, 
>> print server and storage (via USB HDD) all in one. Not the fastest, 
>> and no backup capability, but cheap and effective with minimal fuss.  
>> For my home, that would be the pick of the bunch.  For work, a 
>> different story.
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> A year or so ago I did exactly this, and got a DLink DI-624S which 
> looked promising.
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> Then I discovered that it can only do FAT32 formatted external 
> drives(!), and that the performance if writing or reading was abysmal. 
> Too slow to play video over the LAN. Also it couldn't recognise my 
> brother mfc-210.
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> 'underwhelmed' is a nice way to put it
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