Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@dhanapalan.com> writes:
> 2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton <kev...@reachnet.com.au>:
>
>> Save the environment - buy a NAS.
>> (my mirrored 2-disc NAS averages about 20 W)
>
> That's a good suggestion. My reluctance to use a NAS myself stems from the
> perception of less configurability.
Yup. If you want something capable of the flexibility of a real OS your
options are very limited. OTOH, do you really *need* that level of
flexibility from your storage system?
> Are they any good and affordable NAS solutions out there that allow a decent
> level of configurability and permissions-setting?
The Linksys NSS[46]000 series are entirely Linux underneath, and fully
source-available. I have not actually used the hardware, but we prototyped
one ages ago and found it acceptable.
Otherwise, the DLINK DNS-[24]32 devices can also run Linux, or...
OTOH, my preference would be to purchase external bulk storage in some sort of
NAS that did NFS[1], or perhaps that offered eSATA, and run it through the
central server *if* I needed a fancy set of permissions.
Daniel
Footnotes:
[1] Limited options, sadly, though any of the named ones should, and I
believe the Drobo stuff does too.
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