Re: [Hampshire] Home NAS with Raid?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:56:44AM -0500, Andy Random wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo RND2120 units?
>
> http://goo.gl/YjtbT
>
> Seems like it is a reasonable 2TB raided NAS at a decent price, but
> maybe I'm missing something.
>
> Any similar alternatives people are using and happy with?
>
> And yes I know it is easy to set up my own using a Linux PC and a
> couple of 2TB drives with software raid, but I don't have a machine
> which will take 2x3.5" SATA drives at home and don't have anything
> running 24x7 at the moment, so I'd have to buy both the drives and a
> new machine, which is likely to cost more than the NAS does.

Not what you asked for, I know, but I have a couple of multi-disk
eSATA external cases [1, 2] for drive storage, but then I do have
something running 24x7 that they're plugged into. These aren't RAID
controllers -- just SATA port multipliers that allow you to attach 4
or 5 drives to a single eSATA port. There are similar 2-bay enclosures
out there, too (Edge10 do one, I believe, but Edge10 storage hardware
seems a bit thin on the ground right now).

I have a 6-volume btrfs filesystem(*) spanning the Edge10 and one
of the StarTech bays, and a two-drive linear LVM set-up on the other
two disks in the StarTech. Plus one spare bay.

Hugo.

[1] http://www.dabs.com/products/edge10-edgestore-das501t-enclosure-5-bay-sata-5FYG.html?refs=4294948489-4294948482
[2] http://www.dabs.com/products/startech-com-multi-bay-hdd-enclosure-6LBN.html?refs=4294948489-4294948482

(*) Currently awaiting the completion of a functional btrfsck :(

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