Home NAS recommendations?

[Stephen W. Clarke]

Giles,

I've used a Synology Disk Station at home for the last 4 years.
It's linux inside and supports NFS. Price point is pretty good too.

These are the specs from Synology:
http://www.synology.com/us/products/DS110j/spec.php

This is the link to the unit for sale through CC
http://canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=027628&cid=NTW.791

Stephen



> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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