Home NAS?

pwjohnstonpwjohnston Member Posts: 441
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Do you guys use a NAS at home and if so what?
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  • RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo

    http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/linkstation/linkstation-pro-duo/
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I am using a Synology
    http://synology.com/enu/index.php
    My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com :p
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  • nelnel Member Posts: 2,859 ■□□□□□□□□□
    if youve got an old machine with loads of disks to spare use something like freenas
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  • dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Check out FreeNAS or Open Filer if you have an old machine laying around.
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  • HeroPsychoHeroPsycho Inactive Imported Users Posts: 1,940
    Windows Home Server, and loving it.
    Good luck to all!
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  • pwjohnstonpwjohnston Member Posts: 441
    dynamik wrote: »
    Check out FreeNAS or Open Filer if you have an old machine laying around.

    Well I defiantly have an old machine I could be putting a NAS on. I was looking at FreeNAS earlier. I just like the idea of the small form factor with a RAID. Stick it anywhere there is a network connection and I'm good to go. I've set up the Buffalo's and I know you can hack them to put NIX on it. But really I'm not that bored. haha!

    I just commandeered my old bosses Mac Mini at work at I am in LOVE. I hate gushing about Apple products.

    It's like meeting that cute uppity b*tch at the gym that you so don't want to get involved with, but just can't help yourself.
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  • Megadeth4168Megadeth4168 Member Posts: 2,157
    dynamik wrote: »
    Check out FreeNAS or Open Filer if you have an old machine laying around.

    +1 for Open Filer

    I use and and love it
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  • skeet2331skeet2331 Member Posts: 87 ■■□□□□□□□□
    HeroPsycho wrote: »
    Windows Home Server, and loving it.

    +1 I can stream to my xbox and remote into every computer from work. Works great.
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  • tierstentiersten Member Posts: 4,505
    I just use plain RHEL.
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  • RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    HeroPsycho wrote: »
    Windows Home Server, and loving it.

    Has Microsoft yanked this or something? Every page they had up on it is no longer valid.
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  • pwjohnstonpwjohnston Member Posts: 441
    tiersten wrote: »
    I just use plain RHEL.

    Software's not the issue here. I'm looking for hardware that is small form factor and can handle at least a raid 1 mirror. If I can straight install linux on it I probably will. However I'm assuming that whatever OS runs on the boxes isn't going to have enough storage space in their ram to hold a bigger os. And I don't want to put any new OS on the data drives.
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  • marco71marco71 Member Posts: 152 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I use gnu/linux with mdadm and I think software is a major issue since hardware goes cheaper and cheaper and you can find inexpensive sata drives for, let's say, a raid5 array...
    btw, anyone heard about DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) or is using it as a raid1 over tcp/ip ?
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  • KasorKasor Member Posts: 934 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I'm thinking to setup one at my home..., too. Thanks for the info
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  • NobylspoonNobylspoon Member Posts: 620 ■■■□□□□□□□
    RTmarc wrote: »
    Has Microsoft yanked this or something? Every page they had up on it is no longer valid.

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx

    Works fine for me.
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  • RTmarcRTmarc Member Posts: 1,082 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Hmmm. That very link was not working yesterday. It kept coming up in the search but kept coming back showing a "cannot find this page" error message. Glad it works now.
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  • NobylspoonNobylspoon Member Posts: 620 ■■■□□□□□□□
    RTmarc wrote: »
    Hmmm. That very link was not working yesterday. It kept coming up in the search but kept coming back showing a "cannot find this page" error message. Glad it works now.

    I run into that problem alot on their site.
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  • vanquish23vanquish23 Member Posts: 224
    Nobylspoon wrote: »
    I run into that problem alot on their site.

    Thats what they get for using there own software!
    He who SYNs is of the devil, for the devil has SYN'ed and ACK'ed from the beginning. For this purpose, that the ACK might destroy the works of the devil.
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