[Gloucs] Cheapo NAS

[nik wadge]

Glyn,

We have recently got hold of a Buffalo TeraStation Pro (4x500Gb SATAs on a RAID mirror) This uses a proprietary *nix OS and an old version of Samba for those MS users. It also has the ability to schedule backups, link to LDAP server authentication and set-up folders/permissions, but.....
All of this has to be done in its web-based front-end and I have to say it's a little clumsy, especially setting folder permissions as you have to add users/groups to the read only group then escalate them to read/write.
All-in-all, not the best solution, but are reasonably priced. Links for the 4x250Gb version below
http://www.shop.bt.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4MVS

I hear the new MyBooks are quite good, but have no experience with them, sorry.

Nik


-----Original Message-----
From: gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:gloucs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Glyn Davies
Sent: 17 January 2009 23:54
To: Gloucestershire LUG
Subject: [Gloucs] Cheapo NAS

'lo again.

Anyone have and experience with cheap NAS drives. Typically these are 
like a USB hard drive but also have a 10/100 Ethernet interface.

Ebuyer do this Freecom one - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147969 - but 
reviewers say the underlying disk format is FAT32 which means you can't 
store files greater than 4GB.

This Ebay seller seems to have something similar but the description 
suggests it supports NTFS, FAT32 and EXT3 (whether that is by Ethernet 
or just by USB I don't know).

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/External-USB-Network-1000GB-1TB-LAN-NAS-Hard-Drive_W0QQitemZ110328467655QQihZ001QQcategoryZ16178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

It looks like Ebuyer sells the enclosure but the reviews suggest it 
needs a firmware upgrade.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126893

Any advice/experience on these beasties appreciated. I realise they 
won't be high performance.

-- 
Best Regards
Glyn Davies


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