Erik,

 

Thanks for the feedback.  That’s helpful.

What type of drives come with the NAS?  Are they 7200rpm or 5400rpm? Or does that depend on which flavour of the Netgear NAS one buys?

 

 

 

Hi David

I have a ReadyNAS Duo [X-RAID] with two 1TB disks in raid 0 (mirrored). I believe it's close to what you are looking at. It's mounted as NFS in my Ubuntu server. I use this set-up in my home for personal as well as business use. It has worked flawlessly since I installed it, I think it was in october last year. I backup several clients to it as well as the Ubuntu server it self. A full backup typically reaches a speed of 8 MB/s, but I haven't made any effort to tune the setup, I just plug and pray ;-) . I also store some larger files on it and I stream video from it as well. Works great.

What do you want to know?

Regards
/Erik

David Williams skrev 2010-04-06 23:11:

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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