[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[David Hamm]

The Tiger Direct Link you sent has the Buffalo LinkStations listed and they 
can also be purchased off the shelf at Frys.  The Linkstations are more 
expensive than USB drives but are Linux running on an SBC with an IDE drive 
connected. The OS can be replaced with Debian and running "apt-get install 
rsync" will install rsync on the box.  You can find howto docs at

http://linkstationwiki.org/Articles/PPCFreeLinkToDebian

Buffalo also offers a version of the product called Kuro Box.  The Kuro Box 
comes without a hard drive and can have Gentoo or Debian loaded.   


On Friday 09 September 2005 11:09 am, 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 want it for running backups from a couple Linux machines over a
> network...however, none of these devices says anything about how it works,
> just that they "appear as a drive on each computer on the network"
>
> Fine if you're running Windows, but what about Linux boxes? Does anyone
> know of a solution like this that will let me run backups onto a drive over
> the network when I'm running Linux? I'd prefer not to set up Samba just to
> talk Windows-speak to one of these devices.
>
> -Jay
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