Re: Re: Which NAS Box?

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"I have used an old PIII 800Mhz / 256Mb Gateway"

Crikey! That's a bit cutting edge isn't it?  :)

My two NAS boxes are PII 333MHz / 128MB machines.
Both were given to me, the only new bits it them are the drives and one
has a £10 IDE card to allow more drives to be plugged in.

Being old they don't use as much power and the drives are set to spin
down after 10 mins.  They both work great and have plenty of room for
expansion.



Mon, 2006-05-15 at 22:54 +0000, keyvan2r wrote:
> I use one of these:
>
> http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=288569
>
> It looks nice :-) and works fine with sonos and is very quick &
> quiet. But I agree with Mal, if cost is an issue you can use any pc
> (I have used an old PIII 800Mhz / 256Mb Gateway in the past with
> good results) and put your IDE drive in it and get one of many free
> Linux NAS software tools around - Samba or similar. If the PC case
> can take it, you can a cheap IDE-PCI contoller for more storage
> later.
>
> Keyvan