<span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Dont get me wrong, $1,700 is a lot of money, as it is the price of a round trip air-fare to India. I was reseaching on the net and found a lot of NAS out there, whose cost starts from $55 to $550 without hard-drive and of course with varying protocol and services support. The ones that caught my eye were ADS Tech (single drive, 400 GB max NAS ), SS4000-E from Intel (4 drives, RAID 0,1,5,10 without drives),
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Thecus N4100. Of these I really liked SS4000-E and ADS. Since I have already spent my quota for this year ($8000 on a visit to India for a Month and eye candy LCD monitor), I might have to go with ADS for now. ADS is NAS with single drive and is available for $53 from NewEgg and a seagate 320 GB @ $89 from NewEgg too.
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I had planned on building FreeNAS for a long time, but thinking of another PC sitting there in an already PC cluttered desk was not acceptable by me or my wife.</span><br style="font-family: georgia; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
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<br></strong></font></span></font><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eldon Ziegler</b> <<a href="mailto:eldonz@atlanticdb.com">eldonz@atlanticdb.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I suppose it depends on what you have in mind by cheap. I've been buying<br>from these guys and they have a terabyte for $1,737.<br><br><a href="http://www.visionman.com/build.php?systype=12&fsb=23&ccc_pics=true&osCsid=0b802c743970522745d9bc1cc2741496">
http://www.visionman.com/build.php?systype=12&fsb=23&ccc_pics=true&osCsid=0b802c743970522745d9bc1cc2741496</a><br><br>On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:10 -0500, Rajiv Gunja wrote:<br>> Anyone know of a good, yet cheap (affordable) externally attached
<br>> storage, I would love to have it as a NAS and if it is RAID-1 capable,<br>> even better. I looked into building my own NAS (OpenNAS), but seems<br>> like the commercial ones cost almost the same as building our own NAS.
<br>> Thoughts, views, insight, comments most welcome.<br>> Thanks<br>><br>> -GGR<br>><br>> --<br>><br>><br>> Rajiv G Gunja<br>> System Analyst / Engg<br>> SUN / AIX / HPUX / Linux Admin<br>
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