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Re: [PLUG] NAS recommendations
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Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Marty Skitch wrote:
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>> 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..
I just picked up the new Netgear version of the Infrant ReadyNAS, and
it's been working
without a hitch. It's also has a Slimserver built it to serve the
Squezebox from SLIM devices.
Netgear has a new version in the works - supposedly to allow root access
w/o hacking and
voiding the warrantee.
The only issue I've had is Ubuntu 7.0.4 ( in a VM ) dropping NFS
connections that are soft mounted.
I occasionally get a 'stale NFS mount' error. I've also tried hard
mounts and they also have failed.
A VMware update the the network driver ( in the client ) made this
problem almost
go away - it's now only happening once a week or so.
Anybody seen this before or how to track down these types of NFS errors.
I just wish that Netgear would put a iSCSI target on the platform.
Lee
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