[PLUG] SOHO NAS recommendations

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Thu May 17 05:06:26 UTC 2007


On 5/16/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:40:28 -0700
> "Quentin Hartman" <qhartman at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> > On 5/15/07, Jason Martin <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'll look into the Buffalo, but is that really the only option out
> > > there?  I guess I'm a bit surprised, I didn't think this would be that
> > > uncommon.
>
> > My solution to this problem was to build an inexpensive box dedicated to the
> > task. For less than $1000 I was able to put together about 1TB of usable
> > storage available via any protocol I could hope for, with 3 Gb interfaces,
> > that also does my home routing/firewalling.
>
> I did the same thing, although my solution was more modest. Still, I
> looked at the NAS things available and I was not impressed with what
> you get for the money. There are less expensive ones available at
> Fry's, but I had no idea how they worked, let alone if I could get
> Linux on one. I finally decided that a simple box with lots of storage
> was the best solution. I spent about $575, not counting the extra power
> supply that it turns out I didn't need. That included two 320 GB SATA
> II drives and a 19" monitor from Free Geek. For $1,000 I could have
> gone up to TB and more than one gigabit NIC. The nice thing about
> having your own box is you can put what you want in it.
>
> Just don't put an Abit motherboard in it. :)

If you are going to do your own hardware then for ease of setup and use
I would recommend freeNAS.



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