I have 2 QNAP NASes - one running NFS for VMs, and the other as mounted as a NFS share for BackupPC pools. I like them - full feature set, reasonably low power requirements, etc. I don't have any benchmarks for you (I'm sure you can find them on smallnetbuilder), but so far the thing that I DON'T like about it is that it won't run a LDAP client for user authentication. Oddly enough, it will do LDAP authentication for PHP, but not for general user/Samba. Yet . . . (crosses fingers)
But unless you're going to buy a 4+ drive NAS, I'd think that you're better off buying a small bare bones and setting it up yourself. Then you KNOW its more flexible with custom configurations. At home I have a MSI Wind box (atom 230), ripped out the CD drive, put in a 2nd HD enclosure, so have 2 1.5TB drives in RAID 1 for data, and the OS running off of a mounted Compact Flash card . . . But I'm no expert. So take that with your grain of salt. Kris Lou k...@themusiclink.net On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:10 AM, David Williams <dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com > wrote: > Thanks Erik, > > > > I think that buying a bare bones setup without the disks would be > preferable so that I can choose the exact type of disks that I’d like to > have J > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Dave Williams > > Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the *Palm Pre* and *Pixi*: > > Golf Caddie <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie> | Golf Caddie > Forum<http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/forum>| Golf > Caddie FAQ <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/faq.html> by > DTW-Consulting, Inc. > > [image: site_logo] > > > > *From:* Erik Hjertén [mailto:erik.hjer...@companion.se] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:46 AM > > *To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS > > > > David, > > I think it depends on, as you say, the flavour. Here in sweden these NAS:es > comes with and without disks. I bought mine without disks as I had two > Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EACS) from my previous setup. These disks > are 5400 rpm. > > Regards > /Erik > > David Williams skrev 2010-04-07 14:03: > > Erik, > > > > Thanks for the feedback. That’s helpful. > > What type of drives come with the NAS? Are they 7200rpm or 5400rpm? Or > does that depend on which flavour of the Netgear NAS one buys? > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Dave Williams > > Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the *Palm Pre* and *Pixi*: > > Golf Caddie <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie> | Golf Caddie > Forum<http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/forum>| Golf > Caddie FAQ <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/faq.html> by > DTW-Consulting, Inc. > > [image: site_logo] > > > > *From:* Erik Hjertén > [mailto:erik.hjer...@companion.se<erik.hjer...@companion.se>] > > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:53 PM > *To:* backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [BackupPC-users] NAS > > > > Hi David > > I have a ReadyNAS Duo [X-RAID] with two 1TB disks in raid 0 (mirrored). I > believe it's close to what you are looking at. It's mounted as NFS in my > Ubuntu server. I use this set-up in my home for personal as well as business > use. It has worked flawlessly since I installed it, I think it was in > october last year. I backup several clients to it as well as the Ubuntu > server it self. A full backup typically reaches a speed of 8 MB/s, but I > haven't made any effort to tune the setup, I just plug and pray ;-) . I also > store some larger files on it and I stream video from it as well. Works > great. > > What do you want to know? > > Regards > /Erik > > David Williams skrev 2010-04-06 23:11: > > I currently have a Western Digitial 1TB My Book World device which seems > like it’s starting to play up, which is a shame because I’ve hacked it (it’s > basically a Linux server) so that I could mount the drive as NFS under Linux > and perform backups using Backuppc. I haven’t look into the problem with > the drive too much, but after a few days of it being mounted I can’t cd into > the mount partition of the drive L > > > > I’m looking to get a replacement which will mainly be used to backup > various mount points on my home Linux server. I haven’t done too much > research yet but need something that is one the cheap side, is compatible > with Linux and preferably will let me format the drives to ext3 too, or at > least mount the drives such that I can perform backups using Backuppc, which > requires hardlinks. > > > > I took a very quick look around and saw the Netgear RND2210-100NAS which > looks pretty decent (states that it’s compatible with Linux) and has 2 > drives. Looks like it already comes with 2 x 1TB drives (no idea what type > of drives though if it does indeed come with 2 HDs) and this would be great > as I could use 1 on the 1TB drive for my backups and the other to hold my > photos, music and videos, which would free up some space on my Linux server. > > > > Has anyone ever used (or is currently using) the above Netgear device and > could provide feedback? > > > > If I can’t find a decent NAS then I’ll have to buy several HD’s and > re-config my Linux server with much larger drives. > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Dave Williams > > Check out our WebOS mobile phone app for the *Palm Pre* and *Pixi*: > > Golf Caddie <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie> | Golf Caddie > Forum<http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/forum>| Golf > Caddie FAQ <http://www.dtw-consulting.com/GolfCaddie/faq.html> by > DTW-Consulting, Inc. > > [image: site_logo] > > > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.800 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2795 - Release Date: 04/06/10 > 14:32:00 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. 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