Do you use Network Attached Storage?

mkenyon2 · 2008-05-27, 05:47 PM

If so, what brand/type/configuration?

I'm looking at adding a 1Tb NAS running 100/1000 RJ-45 (Buffalo or Fantom) device to my network. I was thinking for backup purposes, but I wonder if 1Gb would be fast enough for media storage/streaming?

Thoughts?

martint123 · 2008-05-27, 07:24 PM

I got a couple of cheap landrive boxes that take an IDE drive. I put an old 320gb drive in each. They are very very slow, especially writing to them. They will stream SD moderately well. I just use them for central backups now and as a common dumping ground for stuff to be available around the house.
I don't think I'm getting anything close to 100mb/s from them - but they were cheap things.

gazoo · 2008-05-27, 07:34 PM

D-Link DNS-323 ..... there is no substitute. 1000 Baset Linux based...awesome. I used it in mirrored raid 5 config

mkenyon2 · 2008-05-27, 08:14 PM

Mirrored Raid 5? Don't see it as an option. Did you hack it?

gazoo · 2008-05-27, 08:43 PM

Or whatever the mirrored version of raid is..a yes, RAID 1 I meant. Anyhow, good stuff.

jksmurf · 2008-05-27, 10:12 PM

NSLU2 with two USB HD's. Slow as all getup, but works OK ... and it's quiet.

bogyver · 2008-05-27, 10:45 PM

I built my own raid box out of a 2ghz celeron with freenas http://www.freenas.org and a raid card. I run 4 80 gig drives in a raid 5 array. I want to go to 4 500 or 640 sata 2 drives, but dont have the money.

gazoo · 2008-05-28, 01:12 PM

FreeNas as was mentioned is also good. That's a bit more work than just running to a store and getting a NAS but if you're up to it that's cool.

nitrogen_widget · 2008-05-28, 01:29 PM

bogyver Wrote:I built my own raid box out of a 2ghz celeron with freenas http://www.freenas.org and a raid card. I run 4 80 gig drives in a raid 5 array. I want to go to 4 500 or 640 sata 2 drives, but dont have the money.

I was reading about that.
Can you map a GBPVR machine to it & use it as a liveTV share?

gazoo · 2008-05-28, 02:51 PM

I've not attempted it, but I have worked extensively with linux. You could probably configure Samba (from Windows SMB - server message block protocol aka windows file sharing) on FreeNAS for that. NFS is probably another option but you need a plugin or something for Windows for that.

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