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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