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Re: Budget network attached storage?


  • Subject: Re: Budget network attached storage?
  • From: "Steve Edwards" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:52:19 -0000

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Matthew Miles" <m_miles@b...>
wrote:

> Anyway,  I am currently using NASlite+ as my NAS OS
> (http://www.serverelements.com).  A
few thoughts:
> 2) Boots from LiveCD so you can only use 3 drives for storage (it
> ignores the CD).
> 3) As its a live CD the config must be stored elsewhere - its only
> realy used for about 2 secs (like the CD) on bootup - seems a waste
to
> me.  I use floppy but you can use usb.

Just an addition to this, Naslite do a version that boots from a usb
flashdisk, it also uses it for config data.

This allows you to use all of the IDE channels for disks.

Obviously you need a motherboard that can boot from usb, not all of
them do.

Cheers

Steve





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