[ale] off the shelf NAS for school with Linux, Mac and Windoz PCs

[James Taylor]

I have a Buffalo TeraStation and a TeraStation Pro in my office.
The base unit does RAID 0 &1 and the Pro does RAID 5.
The management is via a web interface, and you can do local authentication or redirect to a domain.
They support SMB, FTP and NFS. 
 
-jt


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com




>>> Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> 9/7/2008 08:01 PM >>> 
Brian Pitts wrote:
>
>
> The disadvantage of NAS appliances is that the manufacturers
> differentiate the products by enabling or diabling features in the
> firmware. For example, does the school use Active Directory for
> authentication? If so, and you wanted the NAS to utilize that, you'd
> have to upgrade from the LinkStation EZ to Linkstation Pro.
>   

I've not looked at these products but how does the price delta
compare against a PC running a Linux disti geared toward file sharing?

The benefit of the PC could be raid.  I'm not sure if you can get raid 
with off the shelf NAS devices that are super cheap.


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