RE: What NAS device to reuse existing SATA drives?!

["Jamie Bennett" <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxx>]

=A3400+ Ouch! I have 4 250gb sata drives sitting around and something
like
this would be perfect but not at that price. Maybe I should just bring my
old mini-itx board out of retirement and use this guide
(http://jonpeck.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-configure-80-fileserver-in-45.h=
t
ml) to turn it into a NAS?

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tim Hawes
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:25 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] What NAS device to reuse existing SATA drives?!

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Noel,

I thought there was a "no-disk" Terrastation option but can't
find it now..=
.

Have a look at the Synology range:
http://www.synology
<http://www.synology.com/enu/products/CS406series/index.php>
.com/enu/products/CS406series/index.php
The RS-406 & CS-406 would both appear to accomodate 4-off SATA drives.
You might want to swap your 4th 120GB for a 300GB to match the others
and then get ~900GB (?) in a Raid 5 configuration.

The RS & CS units have gigabit LAN and can accept external USB hard
drives
too.

I've no personal experience of them, but they seemed to fit your
requirements :-)

HTH,

Tim.

On 1/1/07, noel_pilot <HA@adrenalinone. <mailto:HA%40adrenalinone.co.uk>
co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Happy new year to all, in true HA spirit Im planning the first of
> 2007's purchases!!
>
> After my windows xp based media server keeps winding me up I've
> decided I need to look into a NAS device of some sort.
>
> I've got 3 x 300Gb SATA drives in the server and a 4th SATA drive
> thats 120Gb,
>
> Ideally I'd like some kind of Terrastation style enclosure that I
> could just put these drives in!?
>
> Any recommendations on this one, i know there's icy box enclosures and
> such and there's the netgear sc101 but im looking for somehting that
> will work with pc's, macs, xboxes, etc with no need for client
software!!
>
> Thanks all
>
> Noel

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