I use the linksys boxes. You can plug them into your PC just need to install an IFS utility to view the linux partitions. I use the free EXT2IFS 1.10 for Windows XP. Works great. Plug in the usb device and your computer gives it a drive letter and you can drag/drop files.
Yes there is a manual intervention due to power loss but I put it on a $60 APC power backup to give me 10 minutes of battery and have had no problems since. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:18 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: NAS recomendations for home I have 4 linksys NSLU2 boxes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2). Downside is that the drives are formatted as linux drives, and cannot be plugged in to your pc without reformatting (or moved from nas to nas without big problems). These work pretty good, but not great. Since the drives are external USB, when they get shut down due to power outages, they don't come back up without manual intervention. I have 2 netgear SC101 Nas toasters. The problem with these is that under Windows, they are not ip addressable servers, but get attached as mapped drives. This works perfect for the users in this case (7 year old nephew, 65 year old father), as they needn't worry about how to get to the drives, they appear as local harddrives. I have one Buffalo Terastation (same issues as the netgears). Works great. Since I run the 4 drives as separate drives, i can remove and replace at leisure. But, I admit my current favorite is a macMini with cheap external usb drives attached. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
