[MLUG] NAS devices

[Mark Styles]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:02:05PM -0500, nikosapi wrote:
> On March 14, 2008 20:35:20 Mark Styles wrote:
> > I'm in the market for a NAS device that supports Linux, Mac and Windows,
> > ideally with RAID built in. So far the Lacie 2Big Network 2Tb has caught my
> > eye, but I'm wondering if it might be cheaper to buy an enclosure and my
> > own disks.
> >
> > Anyone have any recommendations?
> 
> Set up a linux box, use mdadm for raid, and run samba to share the files. 
> That's what I've been using for a couple years now and it works great. mdadm 
> has proved itself to be very reliable, I've moved my raid array one machine 
> to another and I was even able to simply add a disk to the (raid 5) array and 
> expand it to take advantage of the new space.
> 
> If you have an old PC lying around, you might want to play with this idea 
> first, I really think you might like it :)

I've toyed with that idea, but there are a couple of problems:

1) Time, I don't have much of it.

2) I try to avoid hardware tinkering, mostly because of #1

3) The device needs to be small and quiet as it will be sitting under our TV 
   (unless it's wireless, but then I'm worried about transfer rates).


If someone here wants to build me such a device, I'd probably be willing
to pay them for it, otherwise I think I need an off-the-shelf solution.
The QNAP solution looks interesting.


-- 
Mark 
http://www.lambic.co.uk

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