Author: Rob Malpass Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: [Hampshire] NAS device recommendation
Hi all
Short of building one from a dedicated Linux box (or a Drobo which is prohibitively expensive for me) - can anyone recommend a decent NAS USB device?
I've had a Netgear NSLU2 for about 18 months now and fine though it is, it is beginning to try my patience. In particular:
1) Access is slow. I was copying 45Gb recently and it went more than twice as quickly if I bypassed the NSLU2.
2) The NSLU2 insists on an ext3 partition - which is fine - but if I wanted to encrypt the drive - the only workaround is to write a 100Gb encrypted file and use that as a container.
I suspect 2) might be a sticking point and might well mean a dedicated Linux box - but is there anything out there (known to work well with Linux) that simply allows an external USB HDD to be accessed via a (cabled) network. I've seen them as cheap as £30 on Amazon but write ups are poor (only one user at a time etc).
