For those prices an Openfiler install on a 2U rackmount would be extremely more price effective. For the 1800 bucks you spend on a terastation an openfiler 2U box you could build a 16TB system with SAS practically.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, David Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering about a rackmount NAS box for my home office. > > http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/ > > I have friends who have put Debian on these desktop units - but I'm > looking at a rackmount. I suppose the "firm"ware requirements are > pretty similar? > > I guess something else I'm interested in finding from people... is it > worth buying something like this, or just building a 2U rackmount server > with only samba, ftp and nfs on it? these are about $1800 for a 2Tb > unit - and can be easily configured for RAID over a web interface - is > it worth the extra $$$ ? Is there a good open source iScsi app/driver set? > > Any opinions? > > DK > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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