[Sussex] NAS Portable Storage

[John D.]

On Friday 03 November 2006 11:49, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'm looking around for a HDD enclosure that I can stick a 3.5" drive
> into that you can plug into the network.  I don't really want to shell
> out for a full NAS solution and will probably end up going for just a
> USB enclosure, but it would be nice if the enclosure had an embedded NAS
> doodah too.  There's one on this page called the 'Sumvision 3.5" IDE to
> Nas/USB HDD Encloser' (third from the bottom):
>
> http://www.sumvision.com.cn/results_pages.asp?product_type=37
>
> (Ebuyer sells some of they're gear) Anyone know of a similar beastie?  The
> idea is to stick a 250GB drive into it and use it as 1./ a backup NAS drive
> and b./ a local apt mirror. Got inspired by Alan's groovy article (nice
> one Alan) about apt-mirror:
>
> http://www.popey.com/Creating_an_Ubuntu_repository_mirror_with_apt-mirror
>
> I know there's FreeNAS but I want something very portable and
> (hopefully) cheap.
>
> I guess one solution would be to buy a micro PC. That way I could use
> freenas or even a full install of something - more pricey though...
>
> Anyone?
Well I'm hoping to pick up one of these 
http://www.span.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=19_1302_1328&products_id=5486

tomorrow morning (since I got "carded" by citylink on Thursday).

dunno what it'll work like though.

I don't have the option of a firewire device, as I haven't got any PCI slots 
left/available - sure I don't expect an ethernet connection to me that fast, 
but it should still be faster than USB 1.1 (again, no additional slots 
available to do anything else).

I'll post when I've got it sorted (and probably to the linuxquestions hardware 
compatability list as well).

regards

John D.