RE: Re: NAS box options

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>]

Mark, Phil,

Thanks. I understand things a bit better now.

Cheers,

Tim.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark_harrison_uk2 Sent: 28 November 2003 11:08
>
> Phil posts a good answer.
>
> I guess that the extra things that the expensive NAS boxes do are let
> you configure multiple BOXES as a single volume, and manage things
> like striping and mirroring across them.
>
> If what you want is a SINGLE "virtual big disk", and have
several NAS
> boxes, this has some advantage over the "mount this disk at this
> place" linux-approach, or "map this machine to this drive
letter"
> Microsoft-approach.
>
> It may well be that the lower end NAS boxes do this as well. I've
> only used expensive ones, and NOT at home :-)
>
> M.
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...>
wrote:
> >
> > > A NAS box is simply a cut-down PC, with a network card, and
> > > *lots* of disk space configured as a share(s) for anyone
that
> > > want's to access it ?
> >
> > Well, commercial NAS boxes will normally have a web interface for
> > configuration and will allow you to set up the usual sorts of
> things that
> > you would set up on servers (security, quotas etc) but for the
kind
> of stuff
> > that we're using them for then we don't necessarily need all
those
> > facilities (and if you do need them then run something like Win2k
> Server or
> > 2003 Server and use remote desktop to administer it. (Yes, I know
> Win2k
> > Server / 2003 Server are expensive but being quite blunt I bet
most
> people
> > here have copies of most of M$'s OS's).
> >
> > Phil

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