On Dec 25, 2006, at 9:53 PM, Julian Yap wrote:
Things are starting to get unwieldy and the amount of HD storage
required for files which can be offloaded (namely music, photos) has
increased to the point where I need to consider other storage options.
Basically I want a cheap NAS (and that cheap to run, so not a PC).
Anyone use a Linksys NSLU2? Any good?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
I've got two, but I don't use either one for a NAS.
I've been sorta kicking around the idea of a GigE NAS. All but one
of the computers in the house have GigE now.
Recommend any of the alternative firmwares on this site over any of
the
others?
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
I run open embedded on both of mine.
I'm thinking of getting one of these and a 'Sunday paper brochure
insert' USB hard disk drive.
I'd be glad to let you borrow a NSLU2 if you want.
Another question is, do USB hard disk drives require any Windows/Mac
software to be operational? In other words, are they all pretty much
Free Software OS friendly?
pretty much, yeah. (Assuming your kernel is recent enough and you
can figure out how to partition/newfs/mount/... Most distros have
tools to make it EZ, though the drives
tend to some formatted as a DOS filesystem. You might want to rid
yourself of that.)
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