NAS with support for NTFS?

KIA

KIA

KIA

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Hi,

Is there a NAS in existence that will support disks with NTFS partitions? I have several NTFS drives with gigabytes of data already on them. I do not want to format the drives.

Thanks.
 
Build your own with Windows 2000 or something? That is what I did and it acts as a print server too.

I'm sure there are a number that do though... not all are Linux based. Some NAS solutions are Windows Storage Server 2003 based.
 
As I've discovered, most external NAS boxes these days seem to be based on Linux & SAMBA and thus can't cope with NTFS and are limited to FAT32. The biggest problem with this is the 2GB file size limit which, in this day and age, is frankly pathetic.

I think your only hope is to put it in an external USB/FW/eSATA enclosure. I'm going to go this route and then hang it off my media PC which is on 24/7.
 
Hmm, I strongly advocate an old P3 computer running some windows like 2000 (nice and cheap to build and you have full control e.g. RAID etc.

My old NAS box only cost £35. Celery 1.2Ghz, 448MB RAM, and old laptop 20GB drive with a 3.5" converter. Worked a charm. Then I got some cheap AM2 bits and turned that into an all singing and dancing media/print/NAS server.
 
Best solution imo is a linux based nas/router eg NSLU2, WRT's, bubba, Thecus n****, linkstation pro, asus wl500gp etc etc, a lot have hacked firmwares or support debian based distros offering ext3 and/or full ntfs read/write.

With the added bonus of having a very cheap and energy efficient server/download/bittorrent box.

Downside is you'll have to get your hands dirty getting it set up.
 
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