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Hi All,
I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ric wrote:
Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. On a budget, you have to likely do it yourself or try something like OpenNAS. Arno |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
Ric wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. Linux with Webmin on a mini ITX box is the obvious solution, but I think you'll have to get your hands dirty when it comes to setting it up. |
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"Ric" wrote in message
... Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. Maybe worth looking for a HP Proliant ML115 server? In the £120 region when I bought one, and a fully featured server. No OS/monitor, but i`d be surprised if you got better value for money on anything else :-) |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:49:38 +0100
"Simon Finnigan" wrote: "Ric" wrote in message ... Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. Maybe worth looking for a HP Proliant ML115 server? In the £120 region when I bought one, and a fully featured server. No OS/monitor, but i`d be surprised if you got better value for money on anything else :-) Not exactly a low power solution though, is it? :-) |
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Simon Finnigan wrote:
Maybe worth looking for a HP Proliant ML115 server? In the £120 region when I bought one, and a fully featured server. No OS/monitor, but i`d be surprised if you got better value for money on anything else :-) You will have a struggle finding them in stock at this price now. Gone up :-( -- Adrian C |
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"Adrian C" wrote in message
... Simon Finnigan wrote: Maybe worth looking for a HP Proliant ML115 server? In the £120 region when I bought one, and a fully featured server. No OS/monitor, but i`d be surprised if you got better value for money on anything else :-) You will have a struggle finding them in stock at this price now. Gone up :-( I got in at the right time, and love my machine. Currently running 4 x 1TB drives in RAID 5 and is rock steady. Throws files round the network as fast as I want, and plenty of processing power for when I need it! |
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"Rob Morley" wrote in message
news:20081024203216.1fafbcf7@bluemoon... Not exactly a low power solution though, is it? :-) Depends how low power he means. And if it could replace other boxes on his network, like mine has done, it could work out to be a power saver. For example, mine has replaced 4 external hard drives, each with its own power supply than ran fairly warm 24/7. The new machine runs nice and cool, and has allowed me to turn off another PC that used to run 24/7, so it`s probably not far from breaking even power wise :-) |
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Ric wrote:
Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page * can cope with multiple drives running either as RAID or JBOD. * bonus points for being able to run Ebay sniping software on it * VPN a bonus, too Anyone got a suggestion for how to do this on a budget? All the home power-user-nas boxes I've seen have been slightly lacking in some way so personal recommendations a bonus. I want to get one of these: www.drobo.com You need an addon to make it into a standalone NAS. I do not want to get on those myself, and just want it to directly connect to a lightweight file/web/ftp server. ss. |
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On 25 Oct, 09:52, Adrian C wrote:
Simon Finnigan wrote: Maybe worth looking for a HP Proliant ML115 server? *In the £120 region when I bought one, and a fully featured server. *No OS/monitor, but i`d be surprised if you got better value for money on anything else :-) You will have a struggle finding them in stock at this price now. Gone up :-( -- Adrian C It's a minefield this one. Ubuntu server'll do everything, with some buggering about, although it's not going to give me a web interface that controls everything like bittorrent all in one without some messing about. FreeNAS looks great, does RAID1, does AFP to play nice with my macs and Time Machine, doesn't do webdav Openfiler does webdav (so I can get access to home resources from work where FTP's blocked) but doesn't do AFP. Argh. Think I'm going to go FreeNAS and see how I get on, then move to Ubuntu server. I don't mind getting my hands dirty with hardware or software, but this box is going to be on 24x7 so size/power/noise is a factor - ideally a mini-ITX, passively-cooled system would do the job... Not sure I need VPN - presumably Rsync would do the job to do an over- the-internet sync to a mate running a similar setup? |
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