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From: Ramon F Herrera on 17 Jul 2008 13:37 I have tried several NAS appliances, the latest one being an HP Media Vault Pro mv5150 which will be the fourth box that I have to return. Among others, I have tried one from LaCie I am willing to spend between $400-$1,200. NFS is a requirement. In fact, I wish it came with no NetBIOS, which seems to be part of the problem. No, I am not going to waste my time building one anymore than I would build my own car. TIA, -RFH
From: Ramon F Herrera on 17 Jul 2008 13:47 On Jul 17, 12:37 pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...(a)conexus.net> wrote: > I have tried several NAS appliances, the latest one being an HP Media > Vault Pro mv5150 which will be the fourth box that I have to return. > Among others, I have tried one from LaCie > > I am willing to spend between $400-$1,200. > > NFS is a requirement. In fact, I wish it came with no NetBIOS, which > seems to be part of the problem. > > No, I am not going to waste my time building one anymore than I would > build my own car. > > TIA, > > -RFH Where I wrote NetBIOS above, I obviously meant CIFS/SMB. Well, having that protocol wouldn't bother me, but I mostly need an NFS server that can keep proper track of ownerships and permissions. The fundamental problem with all the boxes that I have tried is that they seem to be designed to hold small files and not having to do too many things concurrently. One of the boxes I returned was working quite well during a large file transfer, but when I typed "ls -l" from the Unix side, it froze on me. Thanks for your kind assistance, -Ramon
From: The Natural Philosopher on 17 Jul 2008 13:58 Ramon F Herrera wrote: > On Jul 17, 12:37 pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...(a)conexus.net> wrote: >> I have tried several NAS appliances, the latest one being an HP Media >> Vault Pro mv5150 which will be the fourth box that I have to return. >> Among others, I have tried one from LaCie >> >> I am willing to spend between $400-$1,200. >> >> NFS is a requirement. In fact, I wish it came with no NetBIOS, which >> seems to be part of the problem. >> >> No, I am not going to waste my time building one anymore than I would >> build my own car. >> >> TIA, >> >> -RFH > > > Where I wrote NetBIOS above, I obviously meant CIFS/SMB. Well, having > that protocol wouldn't bother me, but I mostly need an NFS server that > can keep proper track of ownerships and permissions. > > The fundamental problem with all the boxes that I have tried is that > they seem to be designed to hold small files and not having to do too > many things concurrently. One of the boxes I returned was working > quite well during a large file transfer, but when I typed "ls -l" from > the Unix side, it froze on me. > > Thanks for your kind assistance, > > -Ramon > Just get a scrap PC a copy of linux, and a big disk.
From: Bill Marcum on 17 Jul 2008 14:21 On 2008-07-17, Ramon F Herrera <ramon(a)conexus.net> wrote: > I have tried several NAS appliances, the latest one being an HP Media > Vault Pro mv5150 which will be the fourth box that I have to return. > Among others, I have tried one from LaCie > Are these devices advertised as providing NFS? It's hard to believe several different boxes would simply not work. > I am willing to spend between $400-$1,200. > > NFS is a requirement. In fact, I wish it came with no NetBIOS, which > seems to be part of the problem. > > No, I am not going to waste my time building one anymore than I would > build my own car. > It's your choice, but if you have a spare PC and a hard drive or two, setting up an NAS is nothing like building your own car. Just the other day I saw a video about FreeNAS, a BSD distribution made for that purpose. The video is at http://revision3.com/systm/freenas/ and FreeNAS is at http://www.freenas.org . On the other hand, if you can't get an off-the-shelf NAS box to work...
From: Thommy M. on 17 Jul 2008 15:19
The Natural Philosopher wrote: > Ramon F Herrera wrote: >> On Jul 17, 12:37 pm, Ramon F Herrera <ra...(a)conexus.net> wrote: >>> I have tried several NAS appliances, the latest one being an HP Media >>> Vault Pro mv5150 which will be the fourth box that I have to return. >>> Among others, I have tried one from LaCie >>> >>> I am willing to spend between $400-$1,200. >>> >>> NFS is a requirement. In fact, I wish it came with no NetBIOS, which >>> seems to be part of the problem. >>> >>> No, I am not going to waste my time building one anymore than I would >>> build my own car. >>> >>> TIA, >>> >>> -RFH >> >> >> Where I wrote NetBIOS above, I obviously meant CIFS/SMB. Well, having >> that protocol wouldn't bother me, but I mostly need an NFS server that >> can keep proper track of ownerships and permissions. >> >> The fundamental problem with all the boxes that I have tried is that >> they seem to be designed to hold small files and not having to do too >> many things concurrently. One of the boxes I returned was working >> quite well during a large file transfer, but when I typed "ls -l" from >> the Unix side, it froze on me. >> >> Thanks for your kind assistance, >> >> -Ramon >> > Just get a scrap PC a copy of linux, and a big disk. > NFS on Linux? That would be like taking a tractor to a F1 race. |