NAS

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

Anyone using any NAS solutions, either SOHO stuff for home,  or @ the office?

I'm running freeNAS at work on a Dell PE750 with a Highpoint RocketRAID HBA and a couple 1TB WD Caviar Greenies in RAID 1.  Pretty happy with that.

http://freenas.org

[insurebatimore]

I've used FreeNAS and OpenFiler.  Either one is an excellent alternative to something like a Netgear ReadyNAS.

It's a shame NAS is overlooked as a storage platform.  It does some great things.  But alas, hard drives are cheap and SAN's are not.  Leaves NAS somewhat out in the cold.

[Jeff Golas]

I've used Openfiler at home for playing with iSCSI. Big learning curve and a little temperamental but otherwise works great. I've read a few posts online where people have installed it in soon-to-be-retired HUGE commercial NAS products with 100+ drives.