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On 03/05/11 22:53, Peter Walker wrote:
In June's Linux Format mag there is a review of 2 NAS boxes. They may be a bit expensive for what you want but the review points up some differences in how they are configured and ease of use which is very informative.On 03/05/2011 21:21, Gibbs wrote:Another option is one of these, http://h41112.www4.hp.com/promo/proliantmicroserver/index.html?jumpid=ex_r135_uk/en/smb/tsg/go_proliantmicroserverOn Tue, 2011-05-03 at 20:47 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:Hm. something else I've just found on Aria:http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Networking/Network+Attached+Storage+%28NAS%29/Synology+DiskStation+DS211j+2-Bay+NAS+Enclosure?productId=42861That's cheaper then building it yourself, and comes with the software. Just add 2 drives and off you go...Looks like you have just missed the promotion :-( however they were running a similar offer before Christmas so might extend it or run another soon.I bought one at Christmas and added 3 1.5TB disks in md RAID 10 and Fedora 14. Seems OK so far.Cheers, PeteLooks like it even had it's own P2P software built-in too ... Never used one though... GordonThanks for the help Gordon, much appreciated. Like you said building one myself seems to turn out more expensive and I think I was a bit ambitious in terms of the size and price I was expecting. That "Synology DiskStation" looks great and is about the right budget but my only hesitation right now is the OS installed. Ideally I would like to be able to run a different OS if possible (i.e. Linux) and these sorts of devices seem to be vary brief when it comes to listing the OS installed. The reason for that is I would need to use the likes of SSH and rsync etc etc. Will keep looking around. Cheers again. Gibbs
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