From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 10:19:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4EE6E51 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 10:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6904D2520 for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 10:19:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-4-63.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.4.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 788A1276F3; Wed, 28 May 2014 12:19:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s4SAJSfV002073; Wed, 28 May 2014 12:19:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:19:28 +0200 From: Polytropon To: "Thomas Mueller" Subject: Re: Hardware for NAS/NFS? Message-Id: <20140528121928.3b3cd60a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <10590.73524.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <10590.73524.bm@smtp114.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:19:32 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2014 04:03:46 +0000 (UTC), Thomas Mueller wrote: > Thanks to various people on this list for suggestions. > > I'm looking for something that does not require a full computer, > like the Seagate Central, which is an external NAS hard drive: > 2, 3 or 4 TB, NTFS-formatted, USB 2.0 port, connects to wireless > router by Ethernet. Comparable to the Buffalo LinkStation I had (even though it could only hold one disk, ext2 formatted). It's very low power and boots from a combination of ROM and disk partition, whereas the rest of the disk is for data storage. Access to data could happen via FTP, CIFS and NFS, if I remember correctly. Oh, I found a datasheet: http://www.buffalotech.com/content/files/products/HD-HXXXLAN_DS_092905.pdf Maybe something like this, in "more modern", would fit your needs? As far as I know, those things can be flashed to run Linux with server functionality (mail server or DNS or web server), or even run OpenBSD. > NTFS is not the easiest file system to deal with from BSD or Linux, > but it might not matter over Internet protocols. But it will matter in case of data recovery. :-) > Now I wish my wireless router had a USB port, don't know if there > is any workable way to connect a USB drive to Ethernet through > adapters. Using a device as described and wiring it to the router would be possible. Without further examination, how about those? http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage http://www.amazon.de/Buffalo-LinkStation-LS420D0402-EU-Speed-Gigabit/dp/B00COZ2K48 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...