Fair enough, my only reason for suggesting those is everyone has some spare old computer lying around that can do the job. Haven't used qnap, but I have used a few http://www.thecus.com/ nas's, they have a good community and are very customisable, running busybox last time I played with them.
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Paul Gear <p...@libertysys.com.au> wrote: > David Fawcett wrote: > > I rather enjoyed this guide: > http://blogs.sun.com/mebius/entry/diy_home_nas_box_with2 > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Morgan Storey <m...@morganstorey.com>wrote: > > Have you thought of using http://freenas.org/freenas or > http://www.openfiler.com/ both are pretty good, and I have used both in > dev and testing environments. If I was going to put one in a small business > or at home I would use one of these, way more features for the price. > Just build a little atom/epia/i3 or low-end amd based pc with a cheap sata > card. I have seen corporate sans that only have a 1ghz x86 cpu so it is > little different. > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Paul Gear <p...@libertysys.com.au>wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a low-end iSCSI NAS for SOHO use, and i came across QNAP > <http://www.qnap.com/> (mainly the TS-219P and TS-419P models). The > features seem ridiculously good for the price (including online RAID > expansion & remote replication), and i get warm fuzzies knowing that > they have Linux inside. > > Can anyone who has used them comment on their reliability, performance, > or any other issues? > > > My aim in buying a NAS is so that i don't have to DIY. ;-) > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > >
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