[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[Randy C. Ramsdell]

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:09 -0400, Jay Loden wrote:
> I'm looking to pick up a network attached storage device, something along the 
> order of these (home size, not enterprise ones with lots of zeroes in the 
> price): 

I really don't think you will find exactly what you are looking for in a
consumer grade appliance. One solution for a "network storage" device
would be Iscsi, scsi commands over ethernet, but I think this puts your
$ into the couple of zeros range. I saw recently a rack mounted storage
system that uses PATA drives. Google search "PATA over ethernet". These
would be true "networked" storage. 

Another thing would be to build a system yourself with mini-itx or nano-
itx motherboards. This is the route I will take soon, If I cannot find a
better solution.

I guess this is a area not used much by consumers. but would make for a
good business concept. 

 



> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=207
> 
> I want it for running backups from a couple Linux machines over a 
> network...however, none of these devices says anything about how it works, 
> just that they "appear as a drive on each computer on the network" 
> 
> Fine if you're running Windows, but what about Linux boxes? Does anyone know 
> of a solution like this that will let me run backups onto a drive over the 
> network when I'm running Linux? I'd prefer not to set up Samba just to talk 
> Windows-speak to one of these devices.
> 
> -Jay
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