Re: Buying a NAS am I doing the right thing?

[Sean <thunderchilduk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use a NAS, a little buffalo unit.

Great for the MP3 and I am thinking of getting me a bigger one.

I scrapped my server a few years ago and I have not really missed it.
When I was ISDN the server meant that I had my mail waiting for me,
but now its all gmail and its so quick for my wife to download her
mail.

A NAS also uses less power than a full server - my unit is about 9W,
and all my toys can see it... xboxes, sonos, MCE.

Fair enough its a pain in the neck keeping the passwords the same
accross the network and I don't have my deployed apps anyone - but we
now have our own machines. At some point in the future I can see the
server making a return (once my 6year old discovers MSN for example)
but its gone and I don't miss it.

and my old NT4 box and the SME box died on me at various points, where
I feel a little more confident in the NAS.

Sean
--
"You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it?
And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is
that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you
ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long
division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he
talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose
it's like the man says, It's not what you know ..."
- Karl Arbeiter
Former teacher of Albert Einstein.


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