Hi I've been using FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) for over 2yrs. Apart from a small grumble of using a UFS filesystem, it's been pain free and pretty fast. Mine is installed on a PIII 700MHz with 500+MB of RAM. Might be worth a look, esp if you've got some old hardware around.
Raz :) Philip Stubbs wrote: > 2009/5/13 Rob Malpass <[email protected]>: >> Hi all >> >> Short of building one from a dedicated Linux box (or a Drobo which is >> prohibitively expensive for me) - can anyone recommend a decent NAS USB >> device? > > Hi, > > I also am toying with the idea of getting a NAS type thing. The NSLU2 > was considered, but I was afraid that it may be a bit slow, and you > experiance seems to confirm that. > > I would be interested to know how one of these compares > http://www.viglen.co.uk/viglen/Products_Services/Product_Range/Product_file.aspx?eCode=XUBUMPCL&Type_Info=Description&Type=Desktops&GUID=19315148505 > > -- -------------------------- Rahim Lakhoo (a.k.a Raz) E-Mail: [email protected] -------------------------- -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
