> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Internet NAS Recommendations? > > Hey all, > > I'm looking to buy a NAS solution for my house to backup my pictures, > videos, important files, etc. Ideally I'd it to be RAIDed, around > $500, and be available from the internet via my cable modem > connection. 250GB would be enough.
I've got a ReadyNAS 600 from Infrant and love it. http://www.infrant.com/ It's also pricier that you want, but about the same as the one you've found for the same storage. I bought mine bare about two years ago for $600 and added four 400 Gig drives - under RAID 5 that gives me 1200 Gig of storage. Infrant is pushing it's successor, the ReadyNAS NV (it's a little more expensive), but you can still buy the original in a few places. I'd love to get the new one as a second (believe it or not my 1.2 Terrabytes is almost full) but can't afford it right now. Still... they've got the NV configured with four 750 Gig disks for 3k - if I could afford it I'd have one. The unit is great: nearly silent (unless it's hot, then the fan speeds up). It runs a specialized Linux-based OS called "RADIiator". It's expandable with downloadable modules (right now they support mostly additional streaming servers). The streaming media support is second to none. It supports LinkServer (for my IO-Data networked DVD player) natively, "generic" PnP streaming, Windows Media Connect and SqueezeBox hardware players. The OS is simple (administration is web-based) and easy. It supports everything you need: multiple RAID configurations (which can be changed on the fly), email alerts (for failure and, most importantly, for trouble situations like heat or a slow fan), volume creation with support for domain permissions or locally created ones. Heck - you can even set up backups that are initiated by the NAS server! Just set up the profile and leave your PC on and the NAS box will automatically suck up the files you want backed up. Oh - and it supports a Network "recycle bin" - so very. freakin' super useful (never accidentally and permanently delete a file from the network share agian)! In addition since the box is stand-alone it can also do things that some cheapy disk-only solutions can't. It can act as a print server (it has two USBs ports which can also be used for data transfer from external drives), a DHCP server and can update itself online. It can also take advantage of USB wireless adapters if you want wireless networking joy. I use mine for basic media streaming - I've barely scratched the surface of the other features, but knowing that they'll all there is really nice (besides, once I can afford the 3 terrabyte model I'll use this one as an automatic backup station). As far as internet accessibility... that's really up to your ISP/router solution. If you can give it a dedicated IP or get your router to fake one you can do it - it's really no different that setting up external access to any other PC on your network. I had mine set up like this for a while, but I rarely used it and ended up closing the network hole. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228306 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
