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From: Kevin the Drummer on 27 Apr 2010 17:06
I know that I can build a NAS for Linux. But, I wonder if any of
the pre-built NAS units on the market are usable right out of the
box? I'm looking for something appropriate in size and price for
a moderate sized home network with 6 computers and 700GB of music
(by the time I get done ripping my collection).

Thanks....

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From: General Schvantzkoph on 27 Apr 2010 17:34
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:06:40 -0500, Kevin the Drummer wrote:

> I know that I can build a NAS for Linux. But, I wonder if any of the
> pre-built NAS units on the market are usable right out of the box? I'm
> looking for something appropriate in size and price for a moderate sized
> home network with 6 computers and 700GB of music (by the time I get done
> ripping my collection).
>
> Thanks....

Any NAS should work. A NAS is going to support SMB/CIFS and probably NFS
both of which are fully supported in Linux. Most are probably running
Linux themselves.
From: Mark Hobley on 28 Apr 2010 03:03
General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Any NAS should work. A NAS is going to support SMB/CIFS and probably NFS
> both of which are fully supported in Linux. Most are probably running
> Linux themselves.

Be careful. Some devices are Storage Area Network. these use a proprietary
protocol that addresses disks using block addresses, rather than conventional
NFS or SMB protocols.

Check before you buy.

Mark.

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From: David Brown on 28 Apr 2010 04:51
On 28/04/2010 09:03, Mark Hobley wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph<schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Any NAS should work. A NAS is going to support SMB/CIFS and probably NFS
>> both of which are fully supported in Linux. Most are probably running
>> Linux themselves.
>
> Be careful. Some devices are Storage Area Network. these use a proprietary
> protocol that addresses disks using block addresses, rather than conventional
> NFS or SMB protocols.
>
> Check before you buy.
>

Such devices are, as you say, SAN rather than NAS - although it's easy
to get the acronyms mixed up.

SAN devices are typically more expensive as they are targeted at
professional systems rather than small or home networks. As for
"proprietary protocols", SANs normally use standard protocols - almost
all will support iSCSI, and more expensive ones will have Fibre Channel,
it addition to other standard protocols. Certainly anything the OP
would look at (assuming a reasonable budget) would support iSCSI.

Many NAS devices also support iSCSI, and can thus act as SANs, but
that's not really what the OP wants.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network#SAN_and_NAS>
From: General Schvantzkoph on 28 Apr 2010 07:41
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:51:12 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> On 28/04/2010 09:03, Mark Hobley wrote:
>> General Schvantzkoph<schvantzkoph(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Any NAS should work. A NAS is going to support SMB/CIFS and probably
>>> NFS both of which are fully supported in Linux. Most are probably
>>> running Linux themselves.
>>
>> Be careful. Some devices are Storage Area Network. these use a
>> proprietary protocol that addresses disks using block addresses, rather
>> than conventional NFS or SMB protocols.
>>
>> Check before you buy.
>>
>>
> Such devices are, as you say, SAN rather than NAS - although it's easy
> to get the acronyms mixed up.
>
> SAN devices are typically more expensive as they are targeted at
> professional systems rather than small or home networks. As for
> "proprietary protocols", SANs normally use standard protocols - almost
> all will support iSCSI, and more expensive ones will have Fibre Channel,
> it addition to other standard protocols. Certainly anything the OP
> would look at (assuming a reasonable budget) would support iSCSI.
>
> Many NAS devices also support iSCSI, and can thus act as SANs, but
> that's not really what the OP wants.
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network#SAN_and_NAS>

Linux supports iSCSI and Fibre Channel. Because Linux is so important as
a server OS it gets equal or better treatment with Windows when it comes
to enterprise class hardware so any general purpose SAN systems will
support Linux (there might be some special purpose ones that don't).
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