On 11/11/2009, at 23:41, Ken Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> writes:
2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton <[email protected]>:
Save the environment - buy a NAS.
(my mirrored 2-disc NAS averages about 20 W)
That's a good suggestion. My reluctance to use a NAS myself stems
from the
perception of less configurability.
Yup. If you want something capable of the flexibility of a real OS
your
options are very limited. OTOH, do you really *need* that level of
flexibility from your storage system?
Are they any good and affordable NAS solutions out there that
allow a decent
level of configurability and permissions-setting?
I have a qnap ts-409 pro. It (and all qnap's other models) runs a cut-
down openwrt-style Linux by default - but stock debian runs fine on it
as well (http://www.cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ts-409/)
The newer models (x39, where x is the number of disks) have atom
processors; reportedly much faster and less power-hungry.
The Linksys NSS[46]000 series are entirely Linux underneath, and
fully
source-available. I have not actually used the hardware, but we
prototyped
one ages ago and found it acceptable.
Otherwise, the DLINK DNS-[24]32 devices can also run Linux, or...
D Link do run linux, but hard to do anything on them, I wanted to do
rsync, but it only accepts ftp.
Ken
OTOH, my preference would be to purchase external bulk storage in
some sort of
NAS that did NFS[1], or perhaps that offered eSATA, and run it
through the
central server *if* I needed a fancy set of permissions.
Daniel
Footnotes: [1] Limited options, sadly, though any of the named
ones should, and I
believe the Drobo stuff does too.
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