NAS Storage

[Fred Bloggs]

My Buffalo NAS has been OK but the read/write performance seems very slow over the (wired) network. One serious frustration for me has been that despite the box running on a Linux platform and supports Win or Mac PC's I have been unable to get Suse 10.2 PC's to access files on it.

[bogeyman]

Windows Server HTH

WTF? Are you serious?

Why the hell would you want the expense, hassle and general crappness of Windows Server when you can buy a basic NAS box with embedded OS for the cost of Windows Home Server alone?

Some people just can't see beyond Windows can they?

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I use a Buffalo 2 TB LinkStation Pro with Mac and Windows clients. Simple set up and no trouble at all. Also have an old buffalo 500Gb Linkstation NAS with a built in network print server - handy dandy

[basshead]

My Buffalo NAS hasn't broken for a while now.

+1 for the Buffalo fanboys

root@MRBACKUP:~# uptime
  7:55am  up 374 days, 13:37, load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.00
root@MRBACKUP:~# df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/shm                    15         2        13   8% /mnt/ram
/dev/md1               1142361    300324    842037  27% /mnt/array1
root@MRBACKUP:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20_mvl31-ppc_terastation (root@develop)
 (gcc version 3.3.1 (MontaVista 3.3.1-7.0.13.0500039 2005-01-13)) 
#10 Mon Oct 31 13:47:06 JST 2005

[pmeswani]

Why's that?

A number of reasons. If your internet connection goes down, your NAS goes down. If the WD MyBook server goes down, your NAS goes down. If you don't have a super-fast broadband access, your access to the NAS is slow. Essentially, the NAS is dependant on the factor that your Internet access and the WD NAS site. If that is adequate... then fair enough. . I bought a WD NAS, I now wish I hadn't.

[Fred Bloggs]

A number of reasons. If your internet connection goes down, your NAS goes down.

? I can unplug my broadband cable from the BT socket but the router still works locally and so does the Buffalo NAS.

[voodooflux]

A number of reasons. If your internet connection goes down, your NAS goes down. If the WD MyBook server goes down, your NAS goes down. If you don't have a super-fast broadband access, your access to the NAS is slow. Essentially, the NAS is dependant on the factor that your Internet access and the WD NAS site. If that is adequate... then fair enough. . I bought a WD NAS, I now wish I hadn't.

I think I see what you're getting at: all those issues you mention relate to remotely accessing the MyBook (via "Anywhere Access") from a remote site, is that correct? Unless I'm missing something obvious (which has been known) then surely all those factors would apply to any NAS that is being accessed remotely though i.e from outside your home network?

[VectraMan]

+1 for the Buffalo fanboys

LinkStation Name: HS-DHGLFE4
IP Address: 192.168.0.5
Current Date and Time: 2008/8/10 5:45:22
Uptime: 0.12 days

Well there was a power cut. Just noticed it seems to have got the time wrong.

Just don't buy the media server version. It runs the disk constantly, and then overheats in a few hours wiping out its own firmware in the process.

[voodooflux]

...then overheats in a few hours wiping out its own firmware in the process.

[lilelvis2000]

Or, take an old machine, stuff two (or three) drives in it and make a RAID 1 (RAID 5) out of it.

Then run a free NAS solution like FreeNAS or something similar from the Linux camp.

[Spacecadet]

drobo + drobo share