Re: [PLUG] NAS recommendations

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@gmail.com>]

On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Marty Skitch wrote:

> For the last several years I've had my network storage on a hard  
> drive attached to SLUG (Linksys NSLU2) but I would like to move to  
> something bigger and better.  So over the past several months I've  
> been buying parts as sales come along.  I have 2 300GB SATA hard  
> drives and none of the P-3 boxes I had around supported SATA (so  
> much for using older boxes but don't worry there are other projects  
> on the horizon).  I tried getting cards for the SATA drives but  
> could not find one that was cheap and had driver support.   So I  
> order a bare bones system that should arrive today.
>
>   Any suggesting on what to use for the NAS?
>
>         FreeNAS
>         OpenFiler
>         Ubuntu

I've got a couple of friends using FreeNAS, and they rave about how  
great it is.  One of them is running it on a crusty old P-133.  Yes,  
that's a Pentium-1.  He speaks very highly of the solution.  The gear  
you're talking about should be great.

Regarding controller cards - the Promise SATA300-TX4 is listed as  
working without any trouble on current FreeNAS builds, and seems to  
run about $50 on eBay.

That said, another friend goes on about how great his Infrant ReadyNAS  
is.  Infrant was recently acquired by Netgear, so the jury is still  
out - way out even, on what will happen to Infrant's high quality gear..
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