[Tfug] Cheap NAS with NFS!

[Marco Savo]

Maybe check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
It's old but fully supported, and you can put there whathever you want. You
can buy new for less than 60 dollars

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Brian Murphy
<murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu<murphy%2Btfug at email.arizona.edu>
> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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