I got the Drobo (4 drive one), and Dino and I found some hella cheap 1TB
drives at Microcenter, giving me a total of 2.7 TBs of RAID'd ("beyond
RAID", they call it) storage that interfaces with iSCSI just fine with OS X
and Windows (haven't had time to do it on my Ubuntu laptop yet).The Dropo Pro holds 8 drives, and it as "ears" that you screw on so it will mount on your rack. I'll likely upgrade to that and give my old one to my sister when I outgrow this one. Not sure the Drobos are the best solution out on the market, but they work for now. Plus, I like the simplicity of it. When I outgrow it, I want something that the next person I give it to can easily handle. 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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