The manual for the Dlink DNS-323 dual-disc NAS shows the drives are ext2 or ext3 format (selectable). Therefore if I use RAID1 I will not only have drive redundancy but each drive ought to work in a PC should the box fail. Anyone tested this?
(of course a model 343 running RAID5 woould be very wizzy but I doubt the drives data would be recoverable by a dunce if the box failed) In respect of firmware, the devices are version 1.06 (better than 1.00??). A quick look through freenas didn't bring up any familiar devices it would run on as firmware and I didn't really want an old PC sucking up power all day to function as NAS. Thanks, Kevin. . On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:05 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Kevin Shackleton <[email protected]> [2009-03-14 08:04:44 +0900]: > > Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive > > formats? Looking at a mirroring dual-drive device for reliability, but > > what happens if the box dies - are the drives ext2/vfat/proprietary? > > Are they all SMB/ftp or do some require Windows-only client software? > > Kevin, > > I asked a question on SLUG about this several months ago [1]. While not > directly relevant to your question about firmware, I got some good > replies, especially about a specialised NAS distro called > http://www.freenas.org/. > > [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/01/msg00037.html > > Sonia > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
