[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Alois Hammer]

I've seen a lot of reviews of this sort of appliance, and the one thing
they all seem to have in common is that they tend to sacrifice
performance and/or manageability for useless or near-useless
misfeatures, like "Share pictures with friends across the Internet!" or
"Built-in BitTorrent client!"

I'm getting ready for a major storage upgrade -- probably a 2TB
(subtract for purposely-misleading labeling and formatting/partitioning
headroom) device -- and I'm definitely going with either a customized
NAS Linux/BSD distro, or a general-purpose distro (Ubuntu Server?)

It's definitely all going in a general-purpose case of some sort.  I'm
toying with the idea of stuffing in one of the VIA-core Mini-ITX boards
so I can take advantage of hardware-accelerated full-disk crypto.  If
not, then probably another Intel DG33FBC to complement the one I just
installed in the firewall/router.

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:35:01 -0500 (CDT), "Lionel Peterson"
<lionel4287 at verizon.net> said:
> It's $120 + cost of HDs from Newegg.com, but it looks pretty nice for
> certain 
> applications:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822344001
> 
> Mfg. link: http://www.galaxymetalgear.com/Products/3500MGBR_pro.html
> 
> 2 SATA bays, RAID 1/0, USB expandability, 10/100/1000 ethernet, etc...
> 
> Lionel
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