[ALUG] Good NAS boxes for Linux?

[Venura Mendis]

Ive built a NAS/media PC using Epia mini ITX. It cost me about £220
with 500GB hardisk +dvd rom and a nice case. The motherboard I got is
definitely on the high end and if all you want to do is run Samba the
cost can be brought down lots + hardives are abit cheaper now. My box
runs at 21W on idle. If you use a flash card for the OS, power
consumption will probably be lower. Have a look at
http://linitx.com/
Quite a decent company, though if you are picking up from there office
in Needham market, check the stuff they give you. They gave me the
wrong motherboard but there were no issues changing it.

My box runs xubuntu, mythtv, samba (Does the network fileshare/backup
stuff adequately for me) torrentflux for torrents and linpha for
pictures. Its sort of a combination between NAS and media boxes that
are out in the market currently.

On Dec 10, 2007 12:07 PM, Bill Hill <mail at wbh.org> wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > Does anyone hear use a NAS with their Linux system?  I.e. some sort of
> > Network Storage on their home/office network to provide backup disk
> > space and other facilities?
> >
> I'm currently using a Thecus N2100. I've got 2 drives in it configured
> for raid.
> It's basically a very small computer running on an Arm. It's got a
> custom version of linux on
> the flash - there's a community out there with a slightly dated flash
> image of "full" linux, but
> I'm currently running a chroot'ed Debian install, so I've left the
> original flash in place.
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