[ubuntu-za] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

[Michael]

On 11 December 2010 19:52, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:
> On 12/11/2010 12:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Lee Sharp<leesharp at hal-pc.org>  wrote:
>>> On 12/11/2010 11:15 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>>> If you use any NAS (or a SAN) devices, what do you use? And I'm
>>>> referring more to larger scale network storage than your home PC or
>>>> home theater system.
>
>>>> We've had very good experiences with our NetGear ReadyNAS devices but
>>>> I'm in the market for something new. The NetGear's aren't the cheapest
>>>> ones around but they do what it says on the box. My only real gripe
>>>> with them is the lack of decent scalability.
>
>>> I just replaced a Ready NAS and was not at all happy with it.  But what
>>> I use is a computer.  I install either FreeNAS or Ubuntu Server.  This
>>> not only gives me disk space but better manageability.
>
>>> And I was trying to look for it, but about 2 years ago a online storage
>>> vendor open sourced their storage design.  It was something like 24
>>> disks in 4 U.  10 of those and a 2U server means 480TB.
>
>> That sounds promising. Who is / was the company?
>
> If I could remember that...  It was red, and it was all over slashdot
> and theregister.
>
>                        Lee
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Ok - so after about 2 hours searching I found the article refered to
above; I read it way too and am interested how it has progressed :)

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/



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