[XCSSA] What do I need to do this?

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Thanks Tweeks,

    Looks like it will do the job.Always happy to help you spend your 
money-) Tech support and posted reviews have me a little concerned. Would 
rather format the drive in something other than NTFS/FAT32 so thats OK. Plan 
to keep looking for a couple more days and see what else turns up.


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To: <xcssa@xcssa.org>
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Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [XCSSA] What do I need to do this?


> 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
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