Re: [PLUG] USB Storage Servers

["Thomas A. Lowery" <tlowery@rparts.us>]

Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

> Greetings,
> I am looking at the Linksys NSLUG2 and the  DLink DNS-120 for use as  light 
> storage servers.  My big rub right now is they seem limited to two USB 
> devices at a time.  I know the NSLUG2 uses Linux, so in theory this is 
> fixable, but before I waste my time hacking does anyone else know of USB 
> storage servers that are sub $100.
>
> My basic requirement is that I can attach USB drives to it, and the volumes on 
> it appear as SAMBA shares.  I don't really care beyond that, but having them 
> run linux would be a plus.  Also no iSCSI or stuff like that, I really want 
> SAMBA so that I can access it from all the systems in my house at the same 
> time.
I purchased a NSLUG2 in February because the machine that served as a 
Samba share for our house had a disk crash.
There are a number of hardware hacks  and third party firmware available 
to enhance the device.  So far I've
running stock.firmware.

I've two disk attached, disk 1 is the share, disk 2 is full backup, 
updated nightly.
If you use device backup feature disk 2 is not available as a share.  
Also, there is no information on recover if disk 1 fails.

So far I'm happy with the performance and reliability.

Tom

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