Items Tagged With nas

Here it is, in all its rack mount glory.  The new 19" format of the Buffalo TeraStation PRO range of RAID NAS devices. Available  in 1, 2, 3 or 4 terabyte versions, these units will swallow huge amounts of data for your home media server...

The Norco DS-520 Home Server Appliance supports Windows Home Server amongst other OS's and with 5 hot swap bays plus a additional 3 eSATA ports, can provide up to 8 terabytes of Network Attached Storage...

We all know you can never have enough disk space, but this 4 terabyte monster NAS from LaCie should help! "Lacie today announced the "Biggest Quadra", a 4-disk RAID enclosure with up to 4 TB of storage space. The device has been designed to appeal to workstation users and supports RAID levels 0, 0+1, 5 as well as 5 + hot spare...

What is a NAS? NAS stands for Network-Attached Storage. Basically just a box with a hard drive (or multiple drives) which plugs into your LAN to provide additional storage which can be accessed by users on the network. Read the full Wikipedia definition...

I've just uploaded the write-up on my new Jukebox/NAS machine at home. There are photos and costs too...

"Since ripping and centralising all our DVDs and CDs a few years ago our "Jukebox" server had grown and grown and was in need of replacement. With 5 years of digital photographs taking up 10s of gigabytes alone and ripped DVDs taking anywhere from 3gig to 9gig each!, no matter how much disk space you have it never seems quite enough.

The donated ancient motherboard and RAM that I had received three years ago had performed well. Despite being a lowly Pentium Pro 200 with 128meg, it had coped admirably with serving multiple PCs, Xboxes and other IP clients. However the drive bay configuration in the old AT rackmount case (that had been "modified" with a hacksaw to allow the ATX board to be fitted) meant there was no room left to add any more hard disks, and keeping the drives that were already in there cool was becoming a major issue too...