[RLUG] NAS

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:24:35AM -0700, Rick Shepherd wrote:

>I was thinking about getting a NAS for the office but I don't see why they
>need to be so expensive.  It looks like I could do the same thing with some
>hard drives, a RAID controller and Samba.  Am I missing something here?

Time, effort, and some niggling problems with external drive support 
(e.g. lockups and uninterruptible sleeps on USB and FireWire drives). I 
run about 2TB of external storage on a homebrew Linux NAS. It works 
reasonably well, but I have to reboot the system about once a week when 
a drive goes to sleep and never returns (usually during heavy disk I/O, 
of course). Overall, though, it works well--might even work better with 
external SATA instead of USB/FW.

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