On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 11:06:57PM +0200, Francisco Borges wrote: > I am thinking about buying a new NAS box. Not a DIY box, but a ready > to use NAS (2 to max 4 trays) for home use (it has to be *small* and > quiet). > > As I had a lot of trouble with my ReadyNas Duo (Debian based but now > unsupported), for which I now have trouble buying supported 2G disks, > so I am looking out to buy something more future proof WRT software > support. > > Can anyone recommend me a Debian-based NAS?
I was in the same situation as you not a month or two ago. I spend days online looking for a good NAS, and really couldn't find anything that impressed me. I ended up going with 4-1 TB 3.5" drives, and putting them in a Linux software RAID 10 with LVM on top. I know it's not a NAS, but no matter what I looked at, I couldn't find anything decent. I had a lot of friends online recommend this and that, then they'd get into a discussion why this brand or the other sucks. So, my RAID array is now accessible via SSHFS, NFS, asd CIFS. All my GNU/Linux machines, my wife's iMac and our virtual XP box can access the data on the drives. Works great. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o
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