NAS and linux

[Penguin4Life]

well it's that time of the year when i'll be doing some xmas shopping for myself and i'm thinkin of putting in some network attached storage. i know ximeta has the ndas disks that have ethernet already built in but they seem to be rather expensive, so i'm looking at purchasing the d-link dns-120 nas adapter to allow regular usb hard drives to be available as nas devices. i searched justlinux and google and couldnt find that much applying to my use. does anyone have any experience with nas and linux who could offer me some advice about what to do?

[Penguin4Life]

is there anyone out there that has any idea what i'm talking about? if so please help because i may be buying some NAS hardware if it's possible to make it all work.

[*nixX]

Well, if you want something small and compact why not build a mITX system or microATX system with your favorite flavor of linux?

Add as many hard drives to the system you need and use samba or nfs to serve the drives.

[happybunny]

i had a Snap server once...a whopping 18gig drive too!...that just plugged into the network and I could access it via my windows machines (at the time thats all i had).

Knowing what i know now, i'm sure a samba mount from linux would have worked to.

http://www.snapappliance.com/

[bradfordgd]

I have some NetApp NAS arrays, but they're larger scale than what you're looking to do. I don't really have any experience with anything that small. I just add extra internal disks for what you're doing.