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popper · 03-09-2007, 00:47

those are fine for what they are, but i think it mad to pay that high price for esentially a small case box and a very limited motherboard.

remember that a NAS is really ment to be housed in an out of the way place (or in the case of 11N wireless NAS/routers as high as possible to get coverage)or even another room, so id look to freeNAS http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...l#post34384688
before you pay out masses for simple 1gigabit iSCSI and media/data NAS servers.

hell if you really wanted to see your NAS then get one of these cases and make your own nice one

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/87...l#post34324947

see first link above:
iv not got around to making the new FreeNAS box to try raid0 iSCSI and the XP iSCSI driver out
as yet but it seems XP doesnt have the capability to Software Bond (I.E combine several 1gigabit cards in to one virtual 2Gigabit+ LAN network) but it seems it will be fine for mear single 1Gigabit iSCSI (raid0) drive connection.

anyone know of any free/open Software drivers to allow windows XP to bond (or is it better to say 802.3ad for a standards-compliant implementation)its NCs as linux/Unix can today?.... URLs please.

03-09-2007, 00:47	#3
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: Which NAS Should I Buy those are fine for what they are, but i think it mad to pay that high price for esentially a small case box and a very limited motherboard. remember that a NAS is really ment to be housed in an out of the way place (or in the case of 11N wireless NAS/routers as high as possible to get coverage)or even another room, so id look to freeNAS http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/19...l#post34384688 before you pay out masses for simple 1gigabit iSCSI and media/data NAS servers. hell if you really wanted to see your NAS then get one of these cases and make your own nice one http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/87...l#post34324947 see first link above: iv not got around to making the new FreeNAS box to try raid0 iSCSI and the XP iSCSI driver out as yet but it seems XP doesnt have the capability to Software Bond (I.E combine several 1gigabit cards in to one virtual 2Gigabit+ LAN network) but it seems it will be fine for mear single 1Gigabit iSCSI (raid0) drive connection. anyone know of any free/open Software drivers to allow windows XP to bond (or is it better to say 802.3ad for a standards-compliant implementation)its NCs as linux/Unix can today?.... URLs please.