SOHO NAS enclosure available?

[Skiracer]

I searched the forum and found the linksys device that connects up to two external USB 2.0 drives to a ethernet network, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a NAS enclosure that didn't require the external USB drives, and that didn't cost what an enterprise NAS system costs. Any ideas welcome. TIA!!

 

[Arcanedeath]

I think Lacie makes such an enclosure but you have to purchase it w/ the drives and it's fairly expensive.

 

[blakeatwork]

Right here

Comes with a 120GB builit in, but I'm sure you can swap it out and put your own drives in.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Right here

Comes with a 120GB builit in, but I'm sure you can swap it out and put your own drives in.

Or add another drive...

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo

Originally posted by: blakeatwork
Right here

Comes with a 120GB builit in, but I'm sure you can swap it out and put your own drives in.

Or add another drive...

Indeed.

I bought one for meself, as a vendor was having an intro sale on them. Works well, and near silent if you use quiet drives. Took about 10 minutes to setup and get configured correctly.

Couple customers have bought them for themselves as well, and so far, noone has any complaints.

 

[Garion]

Wow, $500 is pretty spendy. Cheaper to buy a cheap PC and run linux on it. (Yes, I know, space, noise, power consumption, etc.).

You might look at the Buffalo Linkstation - Same capabilities, 120 GB internal and it's only ~$250. Looks like there are a few other vendors in the space like SimpleTech, Iomega, etc. Looks like the Linkstation is a pretty good deal. Linksys is, in general, very good, but probably not worth almost double the price of the competition.

- G

 

[JackMDS]

Link to: NetDisk 200GB, 7200RPM Ethernet & USB 2.0 Combo Hard Drive.

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[Skiracer]

Thanks for all the inputs guys!! I need 1/2 Terabyte of NAS, which right now looks to be more expensive than I am willing to pay :-( However, it looks as though this technology is rapidly becoming available from the different manufacturers and soon should become affordable. Since I can purchase 250 GB hard drives for ~$100 these days, I hope to find a NAS enclosure for not too much $$ and plug a couple of these into it.

 

[JackMDS]

I tried few approaches and it always amounted to more $500 for 500GB.

The best approach would be Buffalo 250GB NAS daisy chained with a Buffalo 250GB Enclosure. Buffalo actually supports this daisy chain between the NAS and the enclosure with their hardware.

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[Ulfwald]

Check out the net box here.

This seems to be somewhat affordable, and is not that expensive.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: Ulfwald
Check out the net box here.

This seems to be somewhat affordable, and is not that expensive.

I do not think that this is the type of product thaa we are talking about.

This is actully a Net Server Box. We are talking storage.

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