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

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:35:09PM -0400, Alois Hammer wrote:
> 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 think that a built in bittorrent client has potential to be really
useful in a family setting.
 
> 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?)

I'd go for Solaris.  Actually, I did go with Solaris, although I
certainly don't have 2TB yet.