[Tfug] NAS suggestions

[Bender]

What is the storage capacity goal?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bexley Hall" <bexley401 at yahoo.com>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:08 AM
Subject: [Tfug] NAS suggestions


> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for suggestions for a NAS to use, here.
> Primarily to keep *large* dataset snapshots "offline,
> but easily accessible".
> 
> Ideally, CIFS/HTTP/FTP/NFS accessible -- though I can
> obviously live with some subset of those.
> 
> Are there cheap/good/reliable/whatever COTS solutions
> that will give me some flexibility in the media used
> (e.g., internal vs. external)?  Or, if I want that,
> do I need to roll my own?
> 
> In the latter case, am I better off with just a
> junk/spare PC, USB3 card, GB NIC and "however many
> disk trays I can support"?  Or, something more
> targeted to this sort of application?
> 
> Thx,
> --don
> 
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