[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[Stephen Cristol]

Linksys NSLU2 - Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives

   http://www1.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=640&scid=43

Reviewed at: (street price $73)

   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-155-ProdID-NSLU2.php

This device runs an embedded linux and there are hacks for it.

   http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article85.php
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article86.php
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article88.php
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article91.php
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article93.php
   http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article122.php

S

On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:42 PM, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Jay Loden wrote:
>
>> I'm looking to pick up a network attached storage device, something  
>> along the
>> order of these (home size, not enterprise ones with lots of zeroes in  
>> the
>> price):
>>
>> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp? 
>> CatId=207
>>
>
> I'm not sure, but I think I saw a Linksys device for USB drives at  
> WalMart
> for $70+/- a while back. You would then add appropriate sized USB hard
> disks to the system. I don't know anything about the system other than
> seeing it on the shelf, so I cann't guess whether or not it would work
> for you.
>
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