Deaf Cat: The good news is, most of what I mentioned is free, and all you need to get it on the network is a network card (cheap). You can try it out with a small drive in your USB enclosure before you spend more on a 250 - 300 GB drive.
So it shouldn't cost much just to try to see how easy or hard it will be and how it performs. If the performance doesn't meet your expectations, I can't see a NAS doing much better. For the price of an Infrant NAS, you could get a fanless 'Mini-ITX' (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/) motherboard/CPU combo coupled with a fanless power supply - many cases for those mobos use power "bricks" just like laptops, so the entire assembly is totally fanless. You'd have enough money to spare to get a backup drive and more. The Infrant NASes are not silent either - someone described it as quite noisy, in fact. This isn't a knock against Infrant, I'm just wondering what their reason for existence is: - not silent - more expensive than a PC - slower processor than a PC I guess if you don't want to build a server and install programs, it would be convenient. As far as NASes go, it's definitely one of the better ones. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24286 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
