Re: [Sheflug] can anyone recommend a NAS

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Willington wrote:
> 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
>   
Not sure if you can still get hold of one but the NSLU2 are good devices 
and you can install openwrt on them so they are good to play with as 
well as doing your storage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2

Robin
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