[LinuxUsers] Buffalo TeraStation anyone?

[Dino K]

For those prices an Openfiler install on a 2U rackmount would be extremely
more price effective.  For the 1800 bucks you spend on a terastation an
openfiler 2U box you could build a 16TB system with SAS practically.


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, David Kaiser <dkaiser at cdk.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering about a rackmount NAS box for my home office.
>
> http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/terastation/
>
> I have friends who have put Debian on these desktop units - but I'm
> looking at a rackmount.  I suppose the "firm"ware requirements are
> pretty similar?
>
> I guess something else I'm interested in finding from people...  is it
> worth buying something like this, or just building a 2U rackmount server
> with only samba, ftp and nfs on it?  these are about $1800 for a 2Tb
> unit - and can be easily configured for RAID over a web interface - is
> it worth the extra $$$ ?  Is there a good open source iScsi app/driver set?
>
> Any opinions?
>
> DK
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