On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Vikas Damodar Garud <vi...@techqual.com> wrote: > > I am looking for NAS for my home use. I want to store data so that it may be > accessed through multiple devices - laptops and smart phones through WiFi > network connection. At present, I a using SuSE and Ubuntu Linux on my > laptops. I have a broadband connection, accessed through WiFi router (Belkin > N150). The router has 4 Ethernet ports, currently unused. I am planning to > connect the NAS drive to one of the Ethernet ports on the router.
For a home grown solution search "Linux NAS" and one of the ref. links is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage> that lists quite a few open source NAS solutions. IMO, you should have done this in the first place. > I looked through Seagate and Western Digital websites. Both of them have NAS > products/personal cloud products. Both of them specify Windows and MAC OS as > the supported operating systems. Linux is not specified. Does it mean that > NAS drives from these manufacturers won't be useful for me at my home? AFAIK, in Linux you can mount CIFS (Windows Shares) as well NFS (Mac OS X -- Apple's version of FreeBSD). It is the vendor's short shortsightedness when they don't mention Linux in the box. I have paid extra money for hardware that explicitly mentioned Linux. The Linux mascot has given me the comfort I will not be hassled looking for drivers. > Or > does it mean that I need to make some changes to some settings (if available) > to access the drive through laptops and smart phone? Or does it mean that > Windows or MAC OS is necessary for initial set-up (That is manageable). Or > ... I have stayed away from such products so no first hand experience. The usual suspect would be the initial configuration which may require IE with Active X! > > Any experience? Any suggestion for useful drive for home use? Any place > (retailer, dealer) where I can buy the same? > See above. I am using FreeNAS and I like it a lot. You can experiment with FreeNAS in a virtual machine - install it on one 1GB disk image with a 25GB disk image for storage. When you are familiar with the Web UI, deploy it on a bare metal hardware. Any old PC with about 2GB RAM should be enough for your home use. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
