N.A.S. Storage (non proprietary ip protocols)

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I am looking for some NAS storage - 160-250 gb

The main use of this will be to store multimedia that will be accessed by my xbox + xbox media centre.

Because of this, it must be accessed by standard tcp/ip rather than some of the proprietary protocols, used for example in the netgear sc101, which require software to be installed on the clients so that the drive appears as a local drive.

I would also like to connect the drive to a local computer by firewire or usb2 so that I can fill it up quickly rather than over a 100mbit network.

OR,are there any gigabit lan drives and it so, if I connected one to my switch (100/10) and directly (via crossover cable) to one of my gigabit lan ports on my motherboard, would it transfer prefereably over the direct gigabit link.

cheers for any help
 
Hmm, I just built one with an old P3 computer...It's got RAID1 250GB...
There are many free Linux based NAS O/S's, most of which are the ones used by the prebuilts you get. Samba etc is all you need. FreeNAS, openfiler etc are OS's designed for this.

Buying a prebuilt box might be easier, but it is more costly, especially when my system only cost about £120 including 2x 250GB HDU's in RAID1 - I don't think you could get this for less than £400 as a standalone. This way you can add firewire/USB/Gigabit LAN to your heart's content (although running gigabitE on the PCI bus might kill the HDU transfers a bit due to both requiring the bus for access).
 
smids said:
Hmm, I just built one with an old P3 computer...It's got RAID1 250GB...
There are many free Linux based NAS O/S's, most of which are the ones used by the prebuilts you get. Samba etc is all you need. FreeNAS, openfiler etc are OS's designed for this.

Buying a prebuilt box might be easier, but it is more costly, especially when my system only cost about £120 including 2x 250GB HDU's in RAID1 - I don't think you could get this for less than £400 as a standalone. This way you can add firewire/USB/Gigabit LAN to your heart's content (although running gigabitE on the PCI bus might kill the HDU transfers a bit due to both requiring the bus for access).
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I had considered this as I have a p3 box rotting in the loft but it's the excess space that I could do without.
 
Hmm... I understand. Mine's in a micro ATX case which is pretty small and sits under my parents' bed along with the router itself. I suppose I could stash it in one of the cupboard/wardrobes too.

There are many NAS/USB enclosures out there though. They aren't exactly cheap but you could just simply get one of these (obviously not the Netgear which isn't actually NAS really).

Buffalo Linkstation springs to mind...
 
I got an External enclosure from Hong Kong, does Samba, FTP. Uses the standard IP protocol and has both USB2 and Ethernet connections. £36 delivered, coupled with a Seagate 7200.10 320, worked out under £100.
 
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