Raid Nas

nitro · Feb 19, 2007

Can someone recommend a good RAID 5 NAS?

This is perfect, except it is more than twice what I want to pay:

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10876

I don't need anywhere near 1TB, 200 GB is plenty. Thing is, I don't see anyone that makes an ethernet RAID 5 enclosure with small disks?

nitro

Traveler · Feb 19, 2007

I have the Infrant NAS and am pretty happy with it.

Bsulli · Feb 19, 2007

If you have an old P3 pc laying around the house you can slap in a few cheap hard drives and use freenas.org. Almost all of the nas boxes on the market are linux based anyway.

Thats what I did anyway and only cost me a few bucks for the extra drives. Linux will do the raid 5 in software which is what linux does anyway.

Bsulli

nitro · Feb 19, 2007

Quote from Traveler:

I have the Infrant NAS and am pretty happy with it.

Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like a good product, but a bit pricey...

nitro

nitro · Feb 19, 2007

Quote from Bsulli:

If you have an old P3 pc laying around the house you can slap in a few cheap hard drives and use freenas.org. Almost all of the nas boxes on the market are linux based anyway.

Thats what I did anyway and only cost me a few bucks for the extra drives. Linux will do the raid 5 in software which is what linux does anyway.

Bsulli

Hmmm, that is a good idea!

nitro