Re: Budget network attached storage?

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Mark Ryder (mark@xxxxxxx):

> I have 3TB of storage on my network and have pretty much run out.
> I'm looking for additional NAS as well now for a DVD server (I've
> ripped my DVD images).   Whilst the NSLU-2 is a good unit, I'll
> probably go for something like a Buffalo Terrastation this time,
> although the price is daunting at £600 inc VAT for 1TB.

I recently did some testing for a client who wanted to use a Terastation
for backups.  The performance was horrendously bad.  If you're mostly
using it for read access then perhaps it might be ok, but I couldn't
recommend it if you're writing a lot of data regularly.

James