Home NAS Recommendations

[Matt Middleton]

I built my own NAS using a bit of new hardware (including a shiny new  
2TB WD drive) and FreeNAS, and I've been really happy with it.

The cash outlay is probably higher for the hardware than the other  
solutions, but I've been very happy with FreeNAS as the OS.  It's been  
running on a CD for months now, and the only downtime has been to add  
new drives (those 2TB drives aren't cheap).

Quoting William O'Higgins Witteman <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>:

> I am planning to set up a fileserver for my home network.  Mainly, this
> is so that when my wife is at home she can sync her laptop and her
> desktop (both Macs) via a quick-and-easy rsync so that both machines are
> always in sync, with an additional copy on the network from which the
> offsite network backup can happen at night.
>
> I don't want to set up a separate full-sized machine to take this role -
> I'd prefer a small, quiet and inexpensive device that I can plug in and
> will "just work".
>
> I am looking at these two devices - a Linksys Media Hub or a WD MyBook:
>
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_357&item_id=023031
> http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=15_213_603&item_id=031508
>
> I would welcome any other suggestions or caveats.  Thanks!
> --
>
> yours,
>
> William
>
>



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