RE: Another route to small scale NAS?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It seems that you can attach an IDE drive to the IDE port
on-board=20=20
> and an external USB storage drive via the USB port.   You can
also=20=20
> attach a printer, so could be used as a print server too.

What, to that unit I posted up? Not as far as I know. The board allows you
to connect a single IDE hard disc to a network (via ethernet) or to a
singl=
e
PC (via USB). The USB port on that board is a "B" type so you
wouldn't be
plugging drives or printers into it. I believe it can act as an FTP server
if used in NAS mode.
=20
<<SNIP>>

> I went the Buffalo Terastation route with a=20=20
> 1TB unit and it arrived last week.   I think it is probably
still=20=20
> =A3150 overpriced, but have been very impressed with it.

It's =A3500 for a quiet, single box, prebuilt NAS solution with a nice
usea=
ble
configuration interface and flexible setup. For someone who is able to
spen=
d
time buying individual components and building a system and not really
worr=
y
if it's not as quiet and compact as the Terastation then perhaps you could
say its overpriced but then again that=92s not really where the
Terastation=
is
aimed. If you had to provide a physically small NAS solution for someone
else or for a company (i.e. your investment of time to implement the
solution was accountable and there were "support" implications
too) then in
that situation the Terastation is a budget solution.

Phil