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pdk68
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:37 pm   Post subject: Network Attached Storage Reply with quote Back to top  
Ok, so here's the deal, I want to put a NAS at my parents house so I can back up all the computers there, mine too when I feel like it. I want redundant hard drives, not like the Linksys where it "backs-up" on a schedule but actual RAID. Snap servers are expensive, more than what I want to spend, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.

Also I'm not a Linux person, don't mind learning just never had a reason too, so I was wondering if Linux will do software RAID like windows server, and/or will it support Promise RAID controllers and the like, and if so should I just build me a small Linux box with Samba, or something of that nature, and use it as my NAS?

Any suggestions, criticisms, or what have you are appreciated.
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:46 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/storage.php

good products, and for what you get, price is not too bad.

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Post Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:10 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I have done software RAID on Red Hat and Suse. Shouldn' be a problem.

You could also look into using FreeNAS.
http://www.freenas.org/

Or NAS Lite.
http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php

But I doubut either of those will do RAID.
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Post Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:20 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=1&pid=1

I read a pretty good review of this device on Tom's Hardware. It does 'RAID 0', Raid 1 and JBOD.

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