[ale] off the shelf NAS for school with Linux, Mac and Windoz PCs

[Daniel Howard]

I'm looking for an off the shelf NAS device with gigabit Ethernet 
interface and embedded Linux/Samba that can be seen by all three OS's 
and found this 500 GB box from Buffalo at $158 from Newegg that 
apparently would do the trick:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822165076

Does anyone have any experience with off the shelf NAS units?  Goal is 
to make integration with all three types of platforms as seamless as 
possible in a school and allow files generated in any of three computer 
labs (one with Windows XP, one with iMacs, and one with Centos thin 
clients) to be easily transferred between the three labs and the 
classroom PCs.  And cheap and easy for school IT folks to set up, of 
course...

Best,
Daniel

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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation