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Anyone here use NAS (Network Accessible Storage) devices?

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drventure:
I put together a cheap machine, with the biggest HD's I could find, mirrored them, and stuck linux and Samba on it.

It can do more than just a NAS drive, maybe just slightly more expensive, easy to swap/upgrade drives, and it's accessible from windows just like any other network drive.

But I will admit that I was using an IOmega nas till it got fried by lightning and that thing worked quite well, with basically no setup (plug it in, set some permissions and done).

lordnacho:

--- Quote from: drventure on April 05, 2013, 12:48:39 pm ---I put together a cheap machine, with the biggest HD's I could find, mirrored them, and stuck linux and Samba on it.

It can do more than just a NAS drive, maybe just slightly more expensive, easy to swap/upgrade drives, and it's accessible from windows just like any other network drive.

But I will admit that I was using an IOmega nas till it got fried by lightning and that thing worked quite well, with basically no setup (plug it in, set some permissions and done).

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Did the same and put freenas on it.  Looking at my newegg part list now, spent about 350 before the 4x2TB drives I put.  Reused a couple old drives, one was giving smart errors, so I replaced it.  Pretty easy

If anyone cares, here's a couple of the parts:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112339 LIAN Li PC-Q25, drives just snap in.  Kinda pricey but I've learned not to cheap out on cases over the years.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131843 Then this cpu/motherboard.  Suprisingly can handle everything so far.

DLinkOZ:
I built another SAN using two boxes and Ubuntu, some DRBD and heartbeat love and it's a quick and easy fault tolerant SAN cluster.  When access to your data is 110% critical :)

shponglefan:
I've done the Linux file server thing in the past (as mentioned i'm replacing my existing one).  While it can be more flexible, I'm going the NAS route this time for ease of setup, lower cost and likely lower power usage.

Maybe it's just me, but I find the older I get the less time I feel like devoting to building PCs.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on April 05, 2013, 02:11:43 pm ---Maybe it's just me, but I find the older I get the less time I feel like devoting to building PCs.

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I hit that point a while ago.  I just want to plug something in, configure it, and get on with my life.

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