I currently have a Western Digitial 1TB My Book World device which seems like it’s starting to play up, which is a shame because I’ve hacked it (it’s basically a Linux server) so that I could mount the drive as NFS under Linux and perform backups using Backuppc.  I haven’t look into the problem with the drive too much, but after a few days of it being mounted I can’t cd into the mount partition of the drive  L

 

I’m looking to get a replacement which will mainly be used to backup various mount points on my home Linux server.  I haven’t done too much research yet but need something that is one the cheap side, is compatible with Linux and preferably will let me format the drives to ext3 too, or at least mount the drives such that I can perform backups using Backuppc, which requires hardlinks.

 

I took a very quick look around and saw the Netgear RND2210-100NAS which looks pretty decent (states that it’s compatible with Linux) and has 2 drives.  Looks like it already comes with 2 x 1TB drives (no idea what type of drives though if it does indeed come with 2 HDs) and this would be great as I could use 1 on the 1TB drive for my backups and the other to hold my photos, music and videos, which would free up some space on my Linux server.

 

Has anyone ever used (or is currently using) the above Netgear device and could provide feedback?

 

If I can’t find a decent NAS then I’ll have to buy several HD’s and re-config my Linux server with much larger drives.

 

 

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Dave Williams

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