On 03/06/2011 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > From: Rob Hasselbaum<[email protected]> > Subject: NAS and media server > To: blug<[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Any recommendations for a good (preferably Linux-based) NAS and media server > box for a home network? At a minimum, it has got to be able to do automatic > backups of machines on the network, both Linux (rsync or sftp) and Windows > clients. Big plus if it can also serve media to an Xbox 360. > > I have a beige box running BackupPC that has been working great for years, > but I think the hardware is on its last legs. Plus it's slow. I have a DLink DNS-321 dual drive NAS box. It was cheap, about $140 a year or so ago. I must say I was skeptical when I bought it, but its pretty great.
It has a music server, SMB, NFS, ftp services as well. It runs linux internally. It also uses the standard "fun_plug" protocol where in it searched for a file called fun_plug on the root partition of one of your disks and executes it at boot time. Using this, there is a project out there that provides a pretty comprehensive set of utilities including sshd and gcc. It does this without ever re-flashing the device, so there is no danger of bricking. I've used it with Windows, mac, and Linux clients. I use it as a media server for the living room and a backup for my home directories. One cool but sometimes annoying thing that it does is spin down the disks when they are not being used. So, initial connections take about 5~10 secs for the drives to spin up and stabilize if the device was idle. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
