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- engalicorn, on 11/10/2008, -2/+5880 pounds for a 500MB drive? Is this 1995 or something!?
- colasrtney, on 11/10/2008, -8/+2980 pounds!? That's an extremely heavy hard drive!
- Rikkochet, on 11/10/2008, -0/+20Brag to your non-techie friends about it...
- seedsofwar, on 11/10/2008, -0/+19cool things you can do:
- spend $200 - $1000 (depending on manufacturer, model, and spec) on a sweet NAS with all sorts of fancy trimmings
- find the network adapter or driver the NAS uses is really finicky with just about all switches
- find out that you probably can't use jumbo frames
- find out that the memory or one or more hard drives in the NAS die in a very short timespan, the memory issue plaguing you in the form of odd issues, random but frequent lock-ups, etc. and have the manufacturer be very poor at helping you resolve your issue
- lament the fact that no matter what you do, no matter what firmware you use, the over-the-network performance is far, far below the advertised specs and makes it so slow it's pretty much worthless
- upgrade the firmware, only to find each firmware version gets progressively worse, with you shutting off more and more features (like itunes or media streaming to XBox) to even get the ***** thing to stand up for more than 10 minutes... oh and you can't revert once you upgrade to v4.x. and also, a disk dies and a bug in the firmware causes it be unable to rebuild the raid volume after you replace the drive.
- nas manufacturer gets bought by netgear, so you decide to give up on life
- finally render it into such a state that it is no longer useful. cannibalize drives from NAS, grab an extra RAID card and just throw the drives into your normal computer's case and set the raid volume up there, and realize that you should have listened to yourself and done this from the beginning.
- use the NAS as a nice little foot rest under your computer desk. when it's cold on you can switch it on and the ridiculous heat it generates acts as a space heater!
yeah, a little bitter at both infrant, er netgear, and buffalo. *****'s rubbish.
wanna protect your stuff? get a couple 500GB or 1TB drives and throw them in your case, mirror those drives, and be ***** done with it. not enough space, worried about heat, want to improve performance? just get a SATA drive cage with the drives. not good enough? find the parts from your last computer or take the left overs from your friend. add drives and www.freenas.org. - Step1Mark, on 11/10/2008, -1/+18Dropping it.
- omjeremy, on 11/10/2008, -1/+15Funny article, considering the title. Here's a more accurate one:
NAS drives, what they do. - jonnyma, on 11/09/2008, -4/+13It's like DropBox on steroids.. Central storage is the future.
- feliks2, on 11/10/2008, -0/+9Peeing on it.
- greevar, on 11/10/2008, -1/+10Pee on it
- rumdrunk, on 11/10/2008, -1/+9I don't get this article, isn't it just stating the obvious, like saying cool things you can do with a browser - look at websites
- Jerk, on 11/10/2008, -2/+10FreeNAS FTW!
- praisethelard, on 11/10/2008, -1/+9Nas was arrested?
- raptor87, on 11/10/2008, -0/+7yes actually
- HotSaucePanCake, on 11/10/2008, -3/+10i didn't read the list, but is "share porn" the #1?
- TheSpook, on 11/10/2008, -3/+9Is there an echo in here?
- RaulMuadDib, on 11/10/2008, -0/+6Also...peeing on it.
- mike3k, on 11/09/2008, -1/+6I installed hacked firmware on my Buffalo TeraStation and I'm now using it as an iTunes server with mt-daapd.
- IglooFu, on 11/10/2008, -2/+7no
- daemonx, on 11/10/2008, -0/+5I've got a Dlink NAS 323 with 1TB Storage. Excellent device..I use it to dload torrent files,ftp/ssh to it from work. My video library is on the disk and I use windows media center to access movies/music. I use to record video from my IP cam.Can copy music directly from the NAS onto my Nokia N82,78 using the Home Network Function.. its just perfect..
You need the fun_plug package. Once you've got it,the possibilities are almost endless.. - Harbinger67, on 11/10/2008, -1/+6The future of friends and family finding your porn, sure.
- curiousgrge, on 11/10/2008, -0/+4What are you talking about that it doesn't work over TCP/IP? I have a Buffalo NAS device and it works fine over TCP/IP. I have also used a Maxtor one and that works fine too. Both of these devices run embedded Linux and it works OOTB. Am I missing something here?
- hongkongjapie, on 11/10/2008, -1/+5I must admit the article was lame (expected something about buffalo with user extensions or another moddable NAS), there are some obvious advantages of a NAS over a PC, like much lower power usage, 24/7 uptime (for some that's also the case on a PC but many people like to play games, dual boot or have other reasons their system is not up all the time), noise, most NASes are more silent than most PC's. Extra security, when running your backup drives from the same PC as your work drives, something like faulty RAM could result in messing up both your working drives and your backup drives with you noticing it only after it's too late.
- Genma, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3***** netgear and their cheap ass corner cutting incompetence. I stopped reading as soon as they mentioned lacie, they're even worse. taking the advice in this article would be like saying hm I feel like trashing inconceivable amounts of data today.
in summary cheap nas is worthless, good nas is way too close to the price of building your own, and ultimately less functional. - DaHuuuuuudge, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3Urinating on it wouldn't be that great.
- linagee, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3share it with who? gets a bit creepy when you put a name to that person.
- inactive, on 11/10/2008, -0/+3Peeing on it would be uncool.
- ambanmba, on 11/10/2008, -1/+3A neat application is an Asterisk server which you can easily do with a NAS... see: http://www.ambor.com/public/home_pabx/home_pabx.ht ...
Another option if you are looking for a low-cost, low-power device is something like this: http://www.fit-pc.com/new/
It's more powerful than the typical hardware of a NAS, but costs about the same... - revyn, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2You're missing two buffalo in that sentence, n00b.
- Exzhaton, on 11/10/2008, -1/+3MOM?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- sanderton, on 11/09/2008, -1/+3Many of them run Linux, so can be hacked to add home media servers or just about anything you fancy.
- javiero, on 11/10/2008, -4/+6upload NAS music on a NAS drive
- Psylo, on 11/10/2008, -0/+2I use FreeNAS, for my NAS at work. It's a FreeBSD minimal distribution, with an old PC. It's an amazing tool. Very simple, extremely powerful.
http://www.freenas.org/ - linagee, on 11/10/2008, -3/+5Someone needs to come out with a FreeReiserFS project.
- IsaacCubed, on 11/10/2008, -2/+3Welcome to the Internet.
- Pushkin, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1- have your cleaning lady knock it on the floor when she tries to extract the mop from the new wires in the closet where your modem/router hangs from their power cables and now the nas is balancing...
- daemonx, on 11/11/2008, -0/+15MB/Sec? If ur on a gigabit network and use jumbo frames you could squeeze upto 20MB/s.
- dreamofrevenge, on 11/10/2008, -3/+4Meh...
- shaherazad, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Lol. Everything.
- iamtrist, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1on the subject of low-power PCs...
http://www.aleutia.com/products/ - feliks2, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1wow, what are the chances... both of us in two minutes
- inactive, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Damn you beat me to it, I was just going to post that comment character for character.
- colasrtney, on 11/10/2008, -3/+4Is there anything uncool you can do with an NAS drive?
- Enchorito, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1That's exactly what I thought. I was hoping for some "cool things" to do beyond the obvious so I could justify buying & building one. This isn't even a good summary of the basic things that they do.
- zmigliozzi, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1I actually was just working on my hardware upgrade for my FreeNAS server. What a coincidence.
- Enchorito, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Drobo is just a really overpriced piece of software in a plastic enclosure. If they would just sell the software instead, they would sell a lot more. $500 for a data storage device with no storage? No thanks!
- adkenc, on 11/10/2008, -1/+2any cool things we can do with NOS?
- PizzaCat, on 11/10/2008, -1/+2the only thing that i can find usefull about a nas over just a file server is that the networked drive can have a recycle bin.
apart from that, they are too slow - kjcdude, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1At work we use 323's at all our locations. Really good dependable devices. The only issue with NAS's is that they are truly meant for a home environment. They can only transfer about 5 megabytes a second compared to a server that will transfer around 120 megabytes per second.
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