[Gloucs] Cheapo NAS

[Glyn Davies]

David Leadbeater wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:54:22PM +0000, Glyn Davies wrote:
>   
>> '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.
>>     
>
> I have the 500GB version but I can't really recommend it, the SMB
> implementation is rather poor, Linux can't even manage to mount the
> drive. I did use it with curlftpfs for awhile but now I've resigned to
> just using it over USB.
>
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Interesting, I'd assume from the mentioned ext3 support that it is
> running Linux on it (also the slower speed quoted[1] for NTFS would
> make sense if they are using ntfs-3g).
>
> David
>
> [1]: http://www.sumvision.com.cn/searchResults.aspx?ptype=37
>
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>   
Hmmm. Odd. The Sumvision page makes no mention of NFS while the Ebay ad 
does.

Odd about the freecom box. I'm sure either in the specs or reviews on 
ebuyer it says it works with linux (presumably mounting the SMB share).

Thanks for the advice.

-- 
Best Regards
Glyn Davies