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I've been playing with http://www.freenas.org/ under VMware (although I think im going to shove it on a "box 'o bits" later today). After seeing the question I did a little searching on previous conversations here regarding NAS devices, and found it mentioned. I have to say, for a freebie its very well put together, and seems to have support for most production setups that spring to mind. I'm going to fiddle with the whole disk encryption later too and see what thats like. The only downside really is the transfer speed under a CIFS environment - although apparently this will improve soon and is down to something busted in BSD, rather than freeNAS. Overall, i'm impressed. On 13/04/07, Mark Jose <kernowyon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007 16:57, Kai Hendry wrote: > > That stuff looks heavy going. NSLU2 and an external USB disk is how I > > would implement one NAS simply. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 > > I literally yesterday plonked two hard drives into an old box I had lying > around here (its a 600 P3, but lesser spec will work) and used NASlite to > create a simple NAS system. The basic floppy version is free and comes in a > few flavours, depending on the method you use to access - e.g smb, nfs, ftp > etc > No expense at all as I had the drives spare anyway. > It is sitting in a corner happily! > I was looking at maybe the "slug" as mentioned by Kai, but came across this > NASlite stuff and, bearing in mind it uses standard IDE hard drives, it > seemed an easy way to do things. It is Linux based too as a bonus! > Their instructions are a little lax I thought - the hard drive must have a > primary partition or you cannot get NASlite to recognise it, but, other than > that, the info is OK. Because it boots from a floppy, the limitations of the > bios on old systems is bypassed - you can simply set the disks to not > installed in the bios and let the Linux system on NASlite deal with it :) > > Mark > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html