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Anyone know of a nice gigabit hard disk enclosure?

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DukeN

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If anyone can tell me about one, that would be great. One HD capability would be plenty, but multiple is nice too, price can't be too high.

The netgear SC101 is a nice concept but terrible apparently, formats your HD in a proprietry format (not FAT32 or NTFS), and gets hot because of passive cooling.

Recommendations are definitely welcome, thanks!
 
The SC101 also uses proprietary drivers. You cannot use it with Linux or Apple. -- FYI.

Let me just tell you that if you want something that is under $250 (including cost of drive), and will give you blazing speed, you are SOL. I have a D-Link DSM-G600. I like it quite a bit, but my maximum write speed is under 5MB/s and maximum read is under 7MB/s.

Apparently, faster boxes are out there. But they are way out of my price range.

And as far as the "proprietary format" goes, a lot of boxes use Linux inside, which means that they use Ext2 and/or Ext3. I would NOT call those proprietary. It is just that Windows is to dumb to read them. You can use Knoppix to get at those partitions. Also, I know of ABSOLUTELY NO box that will let you use NTFS -- unless the box is running Windows. Microsoft invented NTFS and they do NOT publish the specifications for the format. So, in order to use NTFS well, you have to run Windows. The cost and bloat of putting WIndows on a simple NAS box does not make much sense.
 
Thanks a lot for the info, very knowledgeable dude.

I just wanted something that Windows would read natively, so I guess FAT32 is the way to go.

Originally posted by: harrkev
The SC101 also uses proprietary drivers. You cannot use it with Linux or Apple. -- FYI.

Let me just tell you that if you want something that is under $250 (including cost of drive), and will give you blazing speed, you are SOL. I have a D-Link DSM-G600. I like it quite a bit, but my maximum write speed is under 5MB/s and maximum read is under 7MB/s.

Apparently, faster boxes are out there. But they are way out of my price range.

And as far as the "proprietary format" goes, a lot of boxes use Linux inside, which means that they use Ext2 and/or Ext3. I would NOT call those proprietary. It is just that Windows is to dumb to read them. You can use Knoppix to get at those partitions. Also, I know of ABSOLUTELY NO box that will let you use NTFS -- unless the box is running Windows. Microsoft invented NTFS and they do NOT publish the specifications for the format. So, in order to use NTFS well, you have to run Windows. The cost and bloat of putting WIndows on a simple NAS box does not make much sense.
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The situation in the Entry Level NAS is a ?Sorry? situation.

It has nothing to do with Microsoft, Linux or any other technological issue. It is Not such a complicated technological device, it is a Money issue.

Entry Level hardware need to be sold around the $100 mark, their is not enough demand at the moment to sell in quantities that allow such a price. So some manufactures concoct gizmos that cost them very little to develop and try to sell them as is.

It probably will take few years more until ?Joe Six-pack? would start to buy NAS and then you would have inexpensive units that can do NAS the Right way.

:sun:

P.S. Windows XP Embedded is far from been Bloatd.
 
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