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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Dan Duncan <danduncan at gmail.com>
>Date: 2008/04/04 Fri PM 02:11:40 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

>On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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...
>
>I keep toying with the idea of getting something like this, but the
>one thing that stops me is this:
>What happens when the device inevitably fails?  Will I be able to put
>the disks into a
>computer and read them, or will I have to buy/borrow another one of
>these NAS devices?

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It supports RAID (EXT2, EXT3), non RAID (FAT32, EXT2, EXT3) - those seem pretty standard filesystems to me... 

Lionel