On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 14:03 +1000, Sebastian wrote: > Hi all, > > for a while now I've been looking into buying a NAS for the growing > amount of data. > > I was thinking of something like QNAP TS-209 Pro > [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30181/75/] > but as funds are short and the need for storage is pressing I was > thinking that there should be a less expensive solution out there > which still does the job sufficiently. > > When I look as e.g. Officeworks I can get a external 3,5'' drive with > 500GB for less than 150$
Officeworks isn't offering a NAS, it is offering a USB to IDE/SATA adaptor and drive. If this is all you need, you can get them cheaper. > So is there a decent NAS out there which brings ~500GB and is still ~200$ ?? For a NAS to a certain extent you get what you pay for. I am not saying go all out and buy a nexis from SGI [1] - even though it is nice kit (disclaimer I contracted to SGI for a while). You can get something cheap, but will it grow with your needs? Does it support RAID-1 (mirroring)? Does it support snapshot and other advanced functionality that you might grow into? For similar price to the QNAP you could get a VIA based barebones box which you can load up with a couple of disks and install openfiler on it [2]. I am yet to find an affordable NAS appliance that comes close to openfiler. I have 1.5Tb RAID-1 being served up by OF in my office here and it works a treat. In about 30mins you should have a basic install sharing files in your house. It can even be a PDC and an LDAP Server. The only downside - it isn't ubuntu based. Cheers Dave [1] http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/nas/nexis/ [2] http://openfiler.org -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
