[CALUG] NAS / SAN / external hard-drive

[Matt Fisher]

*If one already have a machine that stays on all the time, does a single 
drive NAS offer any advantage over just attaching and sharing an 
external  drive ?  

Granted, I realize 59$ isn't much more than you'd pay for a drive 
enclosure in the first place.










*Rajiv Gunja wrote:
> 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), 
> *Infrant ReadyNAS X6 and ** 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Rajiv G Gunja
>
> *
> On 2/20/07, *Eldon Ziegler* <eldonz at atlanticdb.com 
> <mailto:eldonz at atlanticdb.com>> wrote:
>
>     I suppose it depends on what you have in mind by cheap. I've been
>     buying
>     from these guys and they have a terabyte for $1,737.
>
>     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>
>
>     On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 09:10 -0500, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>     > Anyone know of a good, yet cheap (affordable) externally attached
>     > storage, I would love to have it as a NAS and if it is RAID-1
>     capable,
>     > even better. I looked into building my own NAS (OpenNAS), but seems
>     > like the commercial ones cost almost the same as building our
>     own NAS.
>     > Thoughts, views, insight, comments most welcome.
>     > Thanks
>     >
>     > -GGR
>     >
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