<span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I agree with you all. Infrant or SS4000 is way better in terms of functionality, protocol support and ease of use compared to ADS ($53 NAS).</span><br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">By the way the ADS enclosure support ONLY Ext2/3 formatting of the hard-drive. It runs a embeded Linux on it. According to their website, we are to install Ext2IFS if we want to see/read/write to it using Windows. This is not an issue, currently my main desktop and media reposotory is a Linux PC (Xandros 4).
</span><br><br><span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">For now, I
think I will go with ADS, since it is so cheap and I really need some
place to backup all my music (16 GB of English Music and 13 GB of
Indian Music, and a whole lot of Audio Books). 30 GB iPod is maxed out
and I am tired of burning DVDs every month backing up my Data/music.</span><br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br><span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Unlike other NAS this supports only smb, ftp and http. Plus, having any NAS run a ftp server is asking for trouble. Being a security nut that I am, I dont think my NAS is going to see any outside world anytime.
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By th way, I upgraded my SMC 802.11b router to SMC 802.11n (b/g) last week. The firewall is sweet. It has awesome controls on ports and has a good list of gaming/appln ports already built into it, so you dont have to remember the ports. LAN and WLAN speeds are great.
<br><br>-GGR<br>Rajiv G Gunja<br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">-- </span>
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</span><br style="font-family: georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Fisher</b> <<a href="mailto:f1sh@verizon.net">f1sh@verizon.net
</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;"><br><br> >>(e.g. SMB/NFS) configuration errors or vulnerabilities could result
<br>in allowing more than originally intended.<br><br>Word. I'd rather have to figure out a fixed blade knife than a<br>leatherman. Of course, that doesn't help in terms of real security (ie<br>skilled bug finders) unless the nas implemented audited software. They
<br>should never be accessible beyond your LAN anyhow though, and you know<br>I'm a big fan of just relying on, say, an IDS or something.<br><br> >>Too often us linux folk format a USB drive ...<br><br>That's a good point in a very heterogenous environment. I, of course, am the token Windows guy and don't really have to worry about that :)
<br><br> >>(e.g. sending one to your parents and telling them to use it as a backup<br><br> any diff than sending them an external drive ?<br><br>>>My Infrant ReadyNAS (I have the X6)<br><br>Yeah I checked them both out when you first clued me in on them, but they're too pricey for me. Not arguing their value, just my budget.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Sean Wilkerson wrote:<br>> The $53 NAS 10/100 won't allow for as fast transfer speed as a USB drive<br>> enclosure (USB 2 at 440mb).<br>><br>> It would be very easy to setup shares on the NAS, which you can grant
<br>> access to without having to give access to a machine which may or may<br>> not have data you want to share. Yes, I understand you could restrict<br>> access to the directories/files you want, but once you grant access
<br>> (e.g. SMB/NFS) configuration errors or vulnerabilities could result in<br>> allowing more than originally intended.<br>><br>> They are equally as portable, imho. Though the $53 NAS will work<br>> cross-platform more easily. Too often us linux folk format a USB drive
<br>> with EXT3 or reiser because it is best for us, but if the time comes we<br>> need to share that with the win32 types, there are problems. ViceVersa,<br>> an NTFS drive enclosure requires slightly different access on a *NIX box
<br>> than an EXT3-formatted drive.<br>><br>> Okay, so I guess<br>> portability --> NAS<br>> speed --> USB<br>> Security --> NAS (from this perspective)<br>><br>> Plus a $53 NAS is cool and there might be uses you never thought of yet
<br>> (e.g. sending one to your parents and telling them to use it as a backup<br>> server. My Infrant ReadyNAS (I have the X6) that I bought diskless 18<br>> months ago, is great but was $600 for the chassis and then whatever
<br>> drives you put in it. The ReadyNAS rocks, btw.<br>><br>> Sean<br>><br>> Matt Fisher wrote:<br>><br>>> *If one already have a machine that stays on all the time, does a single<br>>> drive NAS offer any advantage over just attaching and sharing an
<br>>> external drive ?<br>>><br>>> Granted, I realize 59$ isn't much more than you'd pay for a drive<br>>> enclosure in the first place.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>
>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> *Rajiv Gunja wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Dont get me wrong, $1,700 is a lot of money, as it is the price of a<br>>>> round trip air-fare to India. I was reseaching on the net and found a
<br>>>> lot of NAS out there, whose cost starts from $55 to $550 without<br>>>> hard-drive and of course with varying protocol and services support.<br>>>> The ones that caught my eye were ADS Tech (single drive, 400 GB max
<br>>>> NAS ), SS4000-E from Intel (4 drives, RAID 0,1,5,10 without drives),<br>>>> *Infrant ReadyNAS X6 and ** Thecus N4100. Of these I really liked<br>>>> SS4000-E and ADS. Since I have already spent my quota for this year
<br>>>> ($8000 on a visit to India for a Month and eye candy LCD monitor), I<br>>>> might have to go with ADS for now. ADS is NAS with single drive and is<br>>>> available for $53 from NewEgg and a seagate 320 GB @ $89 from NewEgg too.
<br>>>><br>>>> I had planned on building FreeNAS for a long time, but thinking of<br>>>> another PC sitting there in an already PC cluttered desk was not<br>>>> acceptable by me or my wife.
<br>>>><br>>>> -Rajiv G Gunja<br>>>><br>>>> *<br>>>> On 2/20/07, *Eldon Ziegler* <<a href="mailto:eldonz@atlanticdb.com">eldonz@atlanticdb.com</a><br>>>> <mailto:
<a href="mailto:eldonz@atlanticdb.com">eldonz@atlanticdb.com</a>>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>> I suppose it depends on what you have in mind by cheap. I've been<br>>>> 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>>>> <<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
<br>>>> 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<br>>>> 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>>>> > IM: AOL / Yahoo / MSN : ggvrsn
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