Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 06:49:40 MST 2009


Honestly get an old box and add some dekces and look into openfiler

It will outstrip the nas abilities of the ready nult ones and be fully
compatible

And much more flexible

On 4/3/09, Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> You could always get one of these "plug computers" and attach a large
> external USB drive to it. It only draws 5w of power and runs ubuntu so
> you could easily setup your own samba and nfs shares, as well as run
> some kind of media server applications.
>
> I ordered the $99 "dev kit" at
> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
> I got an email Wed saying it was shipped. Once I get it I will run it
> through some paces and post my findings.
>
> -Charles
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