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Need Suggestions for NAS
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| pgrogan@gmail.com 2006-01-20, 2:47 am |
| I'm looking for some suggestions for a home NAS. I have many digital
photos and video that I need to back-up. I've come accorss the
Infrant, Buffalo TerraStation and the Yellow Machine.
Any thoughts/input on these products? Any other ones that I should
consider? Also, I'm not opposed to building a seperate computer to
handle back-up if that makes more sense.
As a bonus, it would be nice to have remote access to files. Any
suggestions (currently a Belkin 54G router with Comcast Dynamic
connection).
TIA
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| Faeandar 2006-01-20, 5:48 pm |
| On 20 Jan 2006 00:43:54 -0800, pgrogan@gmail.com wrote:
>I'm looking for some suggestions for a home NAS. I have many digital
>photos and video that I need to back-up. I've come accorss the
>Infrant, Buffalo TerraStation and the Yellow Machine.
>
>Any thoughts/input on these products? Any other ones that I should
>consider? Also, I'm not opposed to building a seperate computer to
>handle back-up if that makes more sense.
>
>
>As a bonus, it would be nice to have remote access to files. Any
>suggestions (currently a Belkin 54G router with Comcast Dynamic
>connection).
>
>TIA
Why not just use a Linux or Windows host and share the data?
~F
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| Morten Reistad 2006-01-20, 8:46 pm |
| In article <bm32t11bugg6tnmtha0rabattn9ilahb1o@4ax.com>,
Faeandar <mr_castalot@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On 20 Jan 2006 00:43:54 -0800, pgrogan@gmail.com wrote:
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>Why not just use a Linux or Windows host and share the data?
I did that, and it has worked very nicely. I have done this
both with Linux and OpenBSD (a bit more lean and mean on old
CPUs, runs well in 32m memory).
I have had raids operational for three years now, and one of
them has survived two disks going bad without needing more than
a reboot and a reconstruct to swap disks.
I did this on the extremely cheap. 4x160G disk (the ultimate
size when I did this) in two raid5's, one for system and one
for storage, mini-itx box and cabinet. And a gigabit card; when
reading I can get up to 22 megabyte/sek out of the raid.
It is all exported over the local network via NFS and SMB.
There is a slight delay accessing it, but accessing this is
faster than a local laptop disk when I am video editing.
-- mrr
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| Stuart 2006-01-21, 2:46 am |
| hi,
if you want an appliance like solution, but are not opposed to
building the thing yourself and "playing" check out:
http://www.openfiler.org
these guys build a cracking little nas appliance. Does all the normal
(cifs / nfs / ad integration etc) but also has some nice features
which u dont normally get on on "do it yourself linux boxes" such as
scheduled snapshots etc...
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Thks,
S.
On 20 Jan 2006 00:43:54 -0800, pgrogan@gmail.com wrote:
>I'm looking for some suggestions for a home NAS. I have many digital
>photos and video that I need to back-up. I've come accorss the
>Infrant, Buffalo TerraStation and the Yellow Machine.
>
>Any thoughts/input on these products? Any other ones that I should
>consider? Also, I'm not opposed to building a seperate computer to
>handle back-up if that makes more sense.
>
>
>As a bonus, it would be nice to have remote access to files. Any
>suggestions (currently a Belkin 54G router with Comcast Dynamic
>connection).
>
>TIA
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| pgrogan@gmail.com 2006-01-23, 5:48 pm |
| looks interesting, but I have never worked with Linux (nor will I have
the time to learn).
Any ideas on the software/hardware solutions based on Windows?
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| Maxim S. Shatskih 2006-01-24, 2:46 am |
| > Any ideas on the software/hardware solutions based on Windows?
Just the embedded fileserver in Windows. It is rather fast.
--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
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