Recommend me some consumer NAS models...

[InlineFive]

I am currently looking at the Linksys NSLU2 NAS for my network since I might be migrating to all laptops. Can you recommend me some good models? I would prefer if it would work without any custom software.

Now for the NSLU2 specific stuff:
1. Does it use SMB? Will it's drives appear as shared volumes on a Windows network?
2. Can it be a print server?
3. In this review he states that the time server is off (has the latest firmware fixed this?). And he also states that copying large files, or files many layers deep has caused the whole box to crash and he had to reformat the drives on Windows to work properly. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks!

-Por

 

[InlineFive]

Ping.

 

[JackMDS]

The firmware and the FAT on the drive are Linux.

Take into consideration that if you are using a Drive with info on it the info will erased when first installed the Drive would automatically formatted to Linux.

However Ethernet is Ethernet so after the initial formatting as far as Files are concern it works well with Windows.

:sun:

 

[VTrider]

bump because i'm curious too!

 

[blakeatwork]

I've been running one for about a month and a half now...

Works well, once you figure out the little things that annoy. I've been trying to work with Linksys(Cisco) on this product, as i was planning on offering customers offsite storage space, accessible by FTP. Anyways, that's my own problem..

for a LAN backup/storage device, they work great. I have it in the home office, so it also functions as an mp3/movie server. having it on it's own port takes a huge load off my PC, as I don't have to worry about it taking over my desktop NIC with requests or streaming.

As a web-aware device, it needs some serious work. http is all well and good for access, and http-enabled ftp clients work as well, but trying to upload to one remotely (on the WAN side) is, so far for me, non-existent.