Re: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro? -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Netgear ReadyNAS Pro?
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:23:38 -0500
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David Gibbs wrote:

Of course, if I really wanted to, I could build my own NAS server with RAID.... but I'm lazy when it comes to hardware these days.

Any updates on this? I'm still looking into various things, including building my own. However, most enclosures don't have easy access hot swap, although this one looks interesting:

http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?serno=100

Tiger Direct has 500MB 7200RPM drives on sale for $70; could build a 1.5TB NAS for about $600-$700, but that means getting a motherboard and memory and installing Linux and da de da de da...

Another system I saw was the SystemMax:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3127552

Joe

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