Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-07 Thread Ben Doom
I don't think they are hot-swappable, but I believe it will rebuild a mirrored drive if you swap one for a clean one. --BenD Cameron Childress wrote: > Interesting. I just took a look at it but in my initial look I couldn't > tell if it allows hot swapping of drives. The thing I like about Dr

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Dinner
On Jan 5, 2008 12:19 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think (with my bonus in March) I'll be picking up another box... I'm Keep us posted on what you come up with. I'm looking for one before too long (reads: whenever) myself. Speaking of, I'm going to go bust a god damn blog ent

RE: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 9:39 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: NAS (was Re: MagicJack) > > We just bought a pair of D-Link DNS-323 enclosures. Dual-drive with > RAID 0, 1, or JBOD. FTP, mount as a network drive, etc.

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Larry Lyons
>I don't see why not. I'm just saying that the Drobo, cool as it is, >isn't something you can just plug into a network and go. The DNS-323, >while somewhat less cool, is networked out of the gate. > That's basically what we did, plugged it into the Airport, ran the Airport Disk Utility, and t

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Ben Doom
I don't see why not. I'm just saying that the Drobo, cool as it is, isn't something you can just plug into a network and go. The DNS-323, while somewhat less cool, is networked out of the gate. --BenD Larry Lyons wrote: >> They look badass, but they're expensive, and not a NAS. It's USB only

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Cameron Childress
Interesting. I just took a look at it but in my initial look I couldn't tell if it allows hot swapping of drives. The thing I like about Drobo is, (from what I have seen) it doesn't require any UI to operate. You literally just plug drives in and out willy nilly as needed and it dynamically

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Larry Lyons
>They look badass, but they're expensive, and not a NAS. It's USB only. > You could certainly use it as an external drive on a fileserver or >something, but > >--BenD > >Camer >> Dunno, my airport extreme has a usb port that I've attached an external drive to. It works great, an extra 30

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Ben Doom
They look badass, but they're expensive, and not a NAS. It's USB only. You could certainly use it as an external drive on a fileserver or something, but --BenD Cameron Childress wrote: > Has anyone here bought a Drobo yet? I want! > > -Cameron > > Ben Doom wrote: >> We just bought a

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Ben Doom
I want power over-the-air. :-P --BenD Casey Dougall wrote: > I want to get back to just having a power cord... ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Casey Dougall
On 1/4/08, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone here bought a Drobo yet? I want! > > -Cameron That's a USB drive, yuck, so 2007 :-) Makes a lot of sense for one computer though. I want to get back to just having a power cord... ~

RE: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread James Smith
-Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2008 15:56 To: CF-Community Subject: Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack) Has anyone here bought a Drobo yet? I want! -Cameron Ben Doom wrote: > We just bought a pair of D-Link DNS-323 enclosures. Dual-drive w

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Cameron Childress
Has anyone here bought a Drobo yet? I want! -Cameron Ben Doom wrote: > We just bought a pair of D-Link DNS-323 enclosures. Dual-drive with > RAID 0, 1, or JBOD. FTP, mount as a network drive, etc. Built-in print > server (which we aren't using). Very nice. > > --BenD > > Casey Dougall wrot

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Ben Doom
Yes. It's not as feature-rich an FTP server as FileZilla or another dedicated piece of software, but you can give specific users rights (read only or read/write) to specific directories. You can also add users in groups, but the interface is a little clunky. I have each of the servers set up

Re: NAS (was Re: MagicJack)

2008-01-04 Thread Casey Dougall
On 1/4/08, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We just bought a pair of D-Link DNS-323 enclosures. Dual-drive with > RAID 0, 1, or JBOD. FTP, mount as a network drive, etc. Built-in print > server (which we aren't using). Very nice. > > --BenD I want to do something like this, ability to