[Tfug] Cheap NAS with NFS!

[Brian Murphy]

I've had a good experience with the Synology CS407e.  I bought it
because it was cheap (for a 4 disk NAS appliance) and has a slick web
interface for a not very technical person.(mac user)  It does CIFS,
AFP, FTP, and NFS.

synology.com

smallnetbuilder.com does reviews and has charts of these types of
things.

Brian

Quoting Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.ca>:
>> If you can tear yourself away from Linux and use FreeBSD, here's a 
>> distro that will run on most generic x86 boxes:
>>
>>     FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home
>>     Home of Network-Attached Storage server, supports: CIFS (samba), 
>> FTP,     NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, software 
>> RAID     (0,1,5) with full Web ...
>>     http://www.freenas.org/
>>
>> I have several FreeNAS boxes on my networks as backup servers.
>>
> I've played with NetBSD and FreeBSD in the past, but never stuck with
> it.  I'm certainly open to running any UNIX-like OS though.
>
> In my case, I'm just looking for a reasonably priced 2-5 drive NAS box,
> that either natively supports NFS or can be flashed with any alternate
> OS that supports NFS.  I've been told that I should get over it and just
> put together a Micro ITX / Intel Atom box dedicated to file sharing, but
> with two young kids I don't have time for side projects like this that I
> used to have.  It's probably a lot less work than I think though.
>
> For now, I've just bought an extra SATA controller card and have stuck a
> 5th drive into my old file server, with room for a few more before I
> start stressing the power supply.
>
> cheers
>   Jeff
>
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