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On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 19:06 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011, Gibbs wrote: > > > Does anyone have any suggestions for a cheap NAS? I've never used one > > and want to use it primarily for home and server backups. I don't really > > know much about them but I don't want a server at home and I'm not too > > sure on "plugs". Cheers. > > Many options - from building one yourself to buying one - of many. I'd > build my own (and I have) and run NFS and Samba on it, however... > > One you might want to consinder (but only because a friend of mine works > for them) is the Drobo - It's an odd thing in that you can put an 80GB > drive into it, and it tells you it's a 2TB device... When you fill that > 80GB drive, you put in another. When that's full, you add in a 160GB > drive, and so on (the entry level ones have 4 slots). It will RAID the > data when it can - e.g. in that scenario when you add-in the 160GB drive > it would re-arrange things to give you the ability to remove any drive - > until you exceeded it's RAID ability - then you add in more drives, and so > on. > > It's pretty neat, but they're not cheap. > > And I never bought one... Prefering to roll my own... > > Gordon > > I don't mind building one myself as I like the idea of being able to add and change parts. I made a cheap home server with a mini ITX board but I want something a bit smaller and don't know where to start shopping for cheap components and cases. I assume a NAS is just a term for a networked computer with the purpose being storage. If that's the case then I guess I can just try and make a small server, connect it to a router and run something like FreeNAS to make life a bit easier? I'm very tired if I'm not making sense :) Gibbs -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq