[Discuss] NAS devices

[Jeremy Kiffiak]

Deryk,

I purchased and installed one of the ReadyNAS NV+ units for a client  
and she is really happy with it.  The units are rich with features  
and robust as well.  The RAID system all happens transparently.  I  
believe it defaults to different RAID levels based on the number of  
populated drive bays it detects on the initial bootup.    Otherwise  
you can configure it the way you want via the webgui and the system  
does the rest.  I have also played with FreeNAS which also has some  
great features.  It is based on FreeBSD and can be easily installed  
on a vanilla x86 system (and is free).  If it is strictly for  
yourself you may want to check that out as well (http:// 
www.freenas.org).

Jeremy

On 19-Jun-07, at 10:02 AM, Deryk Barker wrote:

> Anyone here any experience with NAS RAID arrays? I am very tempted  
> by the Infrant (now Netgear) NVA+ X-RAID system, as it does  
> striping but allows for replacing individual discs in the array  
> with larger ones and makes use of the space.
>
> Anyone?
>
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