Home NAS recommendations?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:41:12AM -0500, Giles Orr wrote:
> I'm looking for a home NAS - essentially I want a glorified hard drive
> enclosure that has a RJ-45 port on it.  Unfortunately, I think that my
> ideal unit doesn't exist, but I thought I'd ask.  I'd like it to hold
> a single hard drive: dual HDs would mean higher reliability (assuming
> RAID 0) but also higher cost, higher power consumption, probably more
> noise ... and I don't need the extra reliability.  Here's where it
> gets interesting though: I'd like it to support NFS, preferably v4.
> Of course the vast majority of these units are based on Samba, and
> support only VFAT and Windows-style permissions.  I'll live with that
> if I have to.  I have no interest at the moment in building my own out
> of an old PC.

NFS and NFS v4 have nothing in common other than a name.  NFS v4 is a
totally different thing than NFS.  Painfully complex to setup and get
working.

> I would have preferred to purchase a Vantec unit as they're
> recommended here and I've had good experiences with them, but their
> only NAS unit is IDE only, which strikes me as very odd.
> Recommendations would be much appreciated.

Hmm, odd.  I guess they haven't made any new models in a while.  Not that
I blame them.  I really don't see the point of those devices.

How about something like this:

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=010435&cid=NTW.791
4 drive bays, claims NFS and Windows file sharing.

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=027809&cid=NTW.791
4 drive bays I believe, claims CIFS/SMB/AFP/NFS/HTTP/FTP

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