Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-07 Thread Ryan Rix
drive http://www.fs-driver.org/ -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Steven stevenss...@cox.net wrote: Ah! Good to hear someone having success. Did you do the initial setup from Windows? Is that necessary? I think the main concern I had after the initial googling for reviews was that when I grabbed a copy of the manual off the

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Steven
Craig White wrote: My argument against the netbooks for this purpose is that they aren't built for continuous on functionality and I suspect that they won't last. Actually the Wind and Eee I'm thinking of are the micro-desktop versions rather than the netbooks. MSI Wind PC

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Jones
You could always get one of these plug computers and attach a large external USB drive to it. It only draws 5w of power and runs ubuntu so you could easily setup your own samba and nfs shares, as well as run some kind of media server applications. I ordered the $99 dev kit at

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen
Honestly get an old box and add some dekces and look into openfiler It will outstrip the nas abilities of the ready nult ones and be fully compatible And much more flexible On 4/3/09, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: You could always get one of these plug computers and

RE: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Bob Elzer
Dayley Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, stevenss...@cox.net wrote: I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen
-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, stevenss...@cox.net wrote: I

RE: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Bob Elzer
Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:16 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 7:19 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? This works well but behaves weirdly with ext3 floppies On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: FYI if you

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread stu w
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 06:49 -0700, Stephen wrote: Honestly get an old box and add some dekces and look into openfiler It will outstrip the nas abilities of the ready nult ones and be fully compatible And much more flexible This is pretty much what I plan to do soon. Geeks.com has an Intel

RE: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Bryan O'Neal
: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:39 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers And XP/2k3 can

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen
Of Stephen Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:39 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? Sadly it is still the only way to get some drivers And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy On 4/3/09, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: What's a floppy ??? LOL Do

RE: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Bryan O'Neal
To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? Raid drivers are either injected onto install media or added via floppy This has not changed til vista/server 2008 On 4/3/09, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote: And XP/2k3 can only take drivers from floppy What? Last

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Stephen
- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:00 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box? Raid drivers are either injected onto install media

Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-02 Thread stevensspam
I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially googling suggests it might not be very Linux friendly). Anyone have any experience working with

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-02 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 19:46 -0400, stevenss...@cox.net wrote: I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially googling suggests it might not

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, stevenss...@cox.net wrote: I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially googling suggests it might not be

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-02 Thread Steven
Alan Dayley wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM, stevenss...@cox.net wrote: I have been debating recently whether to pick up a cheapish networked external hard drive like a Western Digital My Book (that one initially because it can be picked up locally, although initially googling