I would like to put together a redundant NAS solution for my home network. With the 400gb drives going for $99 it looks like a no-brainer.
The Netgear SC101 looks like a nice solution, but it only has a two drive capacity. At 400gb x 2 this would only give me 400gb capacity on a mirrored configuration. The SC101 is $79 at frys, so the whole solution would be $280. The only downside is that I would probably run out of capacity in the near future as I already have around 300gb of data.
Does anyone know of an inexpensive solution similar to the SC101 that allows for 3-4 drives?
The other thing I could do is use a an older P4 machine I have and add 4 PATA drives to run a linux NAS type box. I've been a unix user for over 10 years, though not as much as I used to, so configuring, etc. isn't a problem. Does anyone know if the software raid in linux is reliable? The only downside to this would be the size of the device, ease of administration, etc.
2007-03-20
13:48:40
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Rob R
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