miniITX board, microATX case, FreeNAS on a CF card, and whatever drives you want. Power consumption is very low and your data is in YOUR hands. Personally, I'd rather have a full linux distro so you can have it run more chores as needed. I like storing ISO's on my fileserver so just drop a CD in the RW, ssh in, and burn off what you need.
NAS specific boxes aren't as cheap but 'easier' to work with. Thecus is very highly rated on their N5200 and N4100 boxes. Infrant (now Netgear owned) is also quite popular. Intel's SE4000 is pretty nice too. That be all, Mr O. --- Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have ideas on network attached storage, preferably > with > RAID, for cheap? I'm looking for something small, cheap, > easy, with > roughly 500GB to 1TB, expandable, for a home to share and > store > photos, music, etc. > > I saw an ad for Iomega but that's in the range of $750. Drobo > looks > cool but that's $500 without drives and doesn't have a network > option. > > Thanks, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
