[PLUG] Network storage

[Larry Brigman]

On 1/15/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have decided I want to get a network storage drive. My house is wired
> for 10/100 ethernet (actually gigabit, but my computers can only do
> 100, so that's moot). I'm thinking of at least 250 GB, but more is also
> nice. I recall someone here recently bought such a device. Naturally, I
> want it to be visible from my Linux laptop so I can make backups to it
> with rsync.
>
> Here is one I found on eBay:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/400-Gb-Network-Attached-Storage-NAS-Hard-drive-Maxtor_W0QQitemZ130068624668QQihZ003QQcategoryZ106273QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
> In case that link doesn't work, it's item # 130068624668.
>
> I currently have a 250 GB USB 2.0 hard drive hanging on my Windows 2000
> desktop. I have spent the better part of a day trying to learn how to
> get rsync to write to it. I can read and write to it with Nautilus, but
> the command line syntax escapes me. I use the Windows box so little
> nowadays that I am going to shut it down and restart it only once a
> month or so when I need it. I could then move the USB drive to my Linux
> laptop, except that there's something screwy with my USB ports when I
> send a large amount of data -- I get frequent lockups. Plus, eventually
> I want to build myself a Linux desktop and it needs something to back
> up to as well. A network device seems the easiest solution.
>
> Recommendations, anyone?

Depends on your objective.
If you have a spare computer lying around then I would recommend freenas.
If you want a simple NAS device that you can just plug your USB drive into then
I would go with the Linksys NSLU2 or any of the other supported devices from the
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ web site.