[XCSSA] What do I need to do this?

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Monday 01 May 2006 04:56 pm, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> On 4/27/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> >     I need an external HD box that my family can access via web browser
> > over the net. Need to be able to connect it to my wired/wireless router.
>
> To the router eh?  I suggest you look at NAS solutions then, because
> that suggests you're going to be talking TCP/IP to the router.  Then
> that device will have to speak SCSI, PATA, SATA, USB, or Firewire to
> the drives themselves.
>
> Linksys makes one, I forget the model number, that takes USB and
> Firewire drives IIRC.
>
> Avoid SAN, you'll see that when NAS is mentioned -- it's fiber channel
> stuff for hard-core data storage facilities and not at all for end
> users.

I don't think "accidentally buying SAN hardware" is really that possible  
since he's eyeballing mini personal NAS drives for $80-$150.... and SAN 
hardware starts at around $6000 and goes up to $250,000. (except for some of 
the new low end firewire and iSCSI based pseudo-SAN (non-FC) hardware).

Gene... You have a new 250GB raw drive ATA drive and you need a NAS drive 
enclosure to put it into that will give you TCP/IP windows (CIFS/SMB) + FTP + 
Web file sharing connectivity right?

Check this one out:
http://www.adstech.com/products/NAS-806-EF/intro/NAS_806_intro.asp?pid=NAS-806-EF

Not bad for $100:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817605002

Some of the reviews from last year sound bad.. but it is flash upgradable and 
I hear that they have since got their act together.  It really looks like a 
very cool device that shares files CIFS/SMB, FTP, HTTP, P2P BitTorrent and 
has Web-based management for easy configuration.  Just pop your new 205GB 
drive into it and you're done. :)

BTW.. The enclosure runs linux and will format your new drive as a ext3 
filesystem (very robust).  So don't expect to format it NTFS or FAT32 and use 
it.  But I bet you could even hack it to share via NFS too.. :)

Cool.. I may have just talked myself into one of these... darn-it!

Tweeks