Re: [Sheflug] can anyone recommend a NAS

[David Willington <violawillington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/5/7 Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thursday 07 May 2009 08:30:07 David Willington wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a good NAS device? I'm looking for something
> > to act as a backup device and a file / media server. I've had a
> > play with one and found the interface to be not at all easy to get
> > round, so any recommendations would be welcome. It'd need the
> > following
>
> Don't know about hardware and so I've probably missed the point of
> your question.  But, FreeNAS is good for such a storage device...
>
> http://www.freenas.org/
>
> I've also used NetBSD which is excellent for this kind of thing.
>
> > 1. 1TB capacity or so, so it'll last a while
>
> Yes. Sounds about right.  This might give a few clues about hardware ?
> ..
>
> http://tinyurl.com/cabqaq
>
> --
> Richard
>
Thanks for the pointers. I'd got something off-the-shelf in mind. It hadn't
occurred to me to look for a NAS OS but it makes sense. I'll have a play
with it

David
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