Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:20:15PM +1100, David Fawcett wrote: > I rather enjoyed this guide: > http://blogs.sun.com/mebius/entry/diy_home_nas_box_with2 Good link, but Solaris is pain for most people coming from Linux or BSD. These days you might use a hybrid: NexentaStor NexentaStor 3.0.0 Commun

Re: Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks

Well said Harry, my members in the retirement village just want things to work, the terminal would terrify most of them. I have waited until I was confident of back-up for Ubuntu, which we now have, and will be introducing it when LTS version 10.04 arrives. Regards, Tony On 30 March 2010 18:42,

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

Fair enough, my only reason for suggesting those is everyone has some spare old computer lying around that can do the job. Haven't used qnap, but I have used a few http://www.thecus.com/ nas's, they have a good community and are very customisable, running busybox last time I played with them. On

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Paul Gear wrote: > > My aim in buying a NAS is so that i don't have to DIY. ;-) > Wheres the fun in that? :P -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

Although not strictly on the topic that was originally posted... Another software option could be unRAID from Lime Tech http://www.lime-technology.com/ There is a free version that you can use (allows 3 drives) that you can have a play with to see if it will suit your needs then possibly (if nee

Re: Linux and Ubuntu on Laptops & Notebooks

Hi Dale, Thanks for your input, much appreciated; however the point that I am making is that we must think along the lines of someone plugging in a device and it will work, like with searching for a printer. As long as this function is not complete we will not see much laptop/notebook users con

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

David Fawcett wrote: > I rather enjoyed this > guide: http://blogs.sun.com/mebius/entry/diy_home_nas_box_with2 > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Morgan Storey > wrote: > > Have you thought of using http://freenas.org/freenas or > http://www.openfiler.com/ b

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

I rather enjoyed this guide: http://blogs.sun.com/mebius/entry/diy_home_nas_box_with2 On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Morgan Storey wrote: > Have you thought of using http://freenas.org/freenas or > http://www.openfiler.com/ both are pretty good, and I have used both in > dev and testing enviro

Re: Low-end iSCSI NAS

Have you thought of using http://freenas.org/freenas or http://www.openfiler.com/ both are pretty good, and I have used both in dev and testing environments. If I was going to put one in a small business or at home I would use one of these, way more features for the price. Just build a little atom/