Pricegrabber has good stuff to say in the reviews -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:16 AM To: cf-community Subject: RE: NAS
> -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Raley -ITC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:40 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: NAS > > Anyone have any NAS that they are using and recommend? I'm using the > Linksys NSL module right now with two WD 500gig drives and mirroring > turned > on to get RAID 1 but the Linksys NSL won't keep date/time correctly for > some > reason. I have all firmware and they don't appear to be supported > anymore so > its time for an upgrade. We have some customers using this that seem > to > lock up if too much data is being mirrored. 500gig mirroring seems to > be > pushing it. I LOVE my Infrant (now NetGear) NAS boxes. I have the older (branded Infrant) ReadyNAS and a newer (branded NetGear) ReadyNAS NV. Both units use the same firmware (BSD on a chip) and so have the same capabilities although the newer unit is about 30% smaller and features completely hot-swappable disks. http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASNVPlus.aspx http://www.readynas.com/forum/faq.php http://www.readynas.com/forum/ I've got four 400 GB drives in the old box and 4 TB drives in the new. Up to four 1TB SATA drives in multiple RAID configurations (I use RAID 5). Up to 1 Gig of RAM (user replaceable). On board print server/usb storage manager/UPS manager, several streaming media services, complex quota and emergency management, network "recycle bin", scheduler (for backups, media indexing, etc), and lots more. You can add plug-ins for additional capabilities or to get direct command line access to the box. Once you open command line access you can install (taking into account the processor and memory limitations) pretty much anything you want. People set up home routers/firewalls on them, additional media servers, mail servers, etc. Active firmware development and user community and AMAZING (and free) technical support provided via the forums. My new box hit a firmware glitch where the system partition filled with failed media server logs: support walked me through opening a port on my firewall, restarting the system in "support" mode, telneted into it and fixed the problem. Can't praise the hardware or software enough. The only major downside is the price - NetGear wants $1000 for the driveless unit (although I think there's a much cheaper "home" edition with only two drives called the "ReadyNAD Duo" I'm not sure of its capabilities). I got both of mine on eBay for significantly less. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280851 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
