Linksys NSLU2 Network Storage Link $59 Today only 5/10 @ staples.com
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This is a good price, but i do not believe it is wireless B, I believe it's ethernet...which is a good thing. I can't imagine transfering files across wireless B over network.
I think that Staples is incorrect about the wireless-B. This is a wired device. Seems like a good deal though.
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I have one of these and let me tell you they are nice. For $60, that is a pretty good price to boot. However, you can accomplish the same thing with your hard drives attaches to a computer and sharing them out that way. I used the NUSL2's mirror backup option but to some people that may be a waste.
Read the reviews out there and make a decision for yourself. I think it was worth it, but others out there don't think so. To each their own....
Read the reviews out there and make a decision for yourself. I think it was worth it, but others out there don't think so. To each their own....
I've had one since it first came out. That's a very hot price.
Pros:
1. Can attach USB memory keys and USB Hdd's to it.
2. Low power consumption and heat generation
3. Doesn't require a system (I rebuild my systems a lot so it's handy)
4. Can be extended via several open source projects
5. Backup feature is excellent
Cons:
1. Only 2 ports for drives
2. Doesn't hold a drive (requires external enclosure)
3. Doesn't spin down the drives (many devices with internal disk can spin down drive)
4. Disk must be formatted by device (file system type is EXT3) so you can't just shutdown the NSLU2 and move the disk to your Windows system. This is my biggest complaint with it.
Overall I'm very happy with it and would probably take advantage of this offer if I could think of what I would do with another one.
Pros:
1. Can attach USB memory keys and USB Hdd's to it.
2. Low power consumption and heat generation
3. Doesn't require a system (I rebuild my systems a lot so it's handy)
4. Can be extended via several open source projects
5. Backup feature is excellent
Cons:
1. Only 2 ports for drives
2. Doesn't hold a drive (requires external enclosure)
3. Doesn't spin down the drives (many devices with internal disk can spin down drive)
4. Disk must be formatted by device (file system type is EXT3) so you can't just shutdown the NSLU2 and move the disk to your Windows system. This is my biggest complaint with it.
Overall I'm very happy with it and would probably take advantage of this offer if I could think of what I would do with another one.
No, the USB FLASH memory thumb keychain etc drives remain the same.
Its the hard drives that need to be reformatted.
And if you get some of the abovementioned open source firmware updates you dont even need to format the hard drives either.
Really? Do you mean it can be made to accept a different file system like FAT32 ot NTFS rather than EXT3? Please elaborate.
I have 2 of these, one for a server and one for mirror backup of the server. There are quiet, very small, easy to set up, very reliable, and I like being able to hack it by installing custom firmware. It is very stable, and I haven't had to do any administration on them since I set them up 9 monhts ago. However, I find them fairly slow over the network. There is a noticable lag getting data. It's not terrible, but you know the files aren't local. For comparison, just last night I created a beefy Debian server (Athlon64, 1GB ram) that serves the same files from IDE-connected disks, and files from that server come up in an instant, and the response time feels close to that of a local disk. Obviously, I prefer the faster server, but it is an order of magnitude more expensive and at least an order of magnitude more complex to set up.
As long as you don't expect high performance, you'll be happy. I'll probably keep one of mine around as an iTunes server or for some other fun hacks. After all, $59 isn't a bad price for a linux server the size of a paperback book that has 2 usb ports and an Ethernet port. It seems like there should be all sort of interesting things you could do.
As long as you don't expect high performance, you'll be happy. I'll probably keep one of mine around as an iTunes server or for some other fun hacks. After all, $59 isn't a bad price for a linux server the size of a paperback book that has 2 usb ports and an Ethernet port. It seems like there should be all sort of interesting things you could do.
Wow. This thing looks like it could be pretty useful. To bad it is OOS now. When I looked this morning I was intrigued, but it just wasn't something I needed to have. Now that I read about the hacked firmware this thing looks much more attractive. I wish it was still available.
Yes. By default with no modifications I belive it uses the fat32 system on a USB FLASH drive.
For hard drives:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AttachAFAT32FormattedDrive
FAT32 only right now, NTFS is ms's proprietary filesystem and there's still not a linux open source driver availible to let you do full read and write access to it, so there's no driver to do such in this either.
Sounds good. The Buffalo linkstation deal today for $185 shipped after MIR is also very tempting.
Dunno, you should goto thier page:
http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/
And ask them. Especially since its a pay product, you should be able to ask sales questions.
I guess the issue would be if they require default firmware in the device, or they can operate with modified firmware. And then if they require special features of ext3 or they can just deal with standard samba. Etc.
Contact them, if you are going to shell out money for it, you surely should be able to find out.
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