HP Media Vault

[DarkPenguin]

Anyone use one of these things?  I've a linux server in my basement I'd like to take an axe to and want to replace it with a simple NAS.

Seems to get nice reviews.  Has a decent max capacity.  Looks quick enough.  Takes up to 3 external usb drives and a second internal SATA drive.

Should have enough storage to hold me until something new comes along.

Can't figure out if it is a good $$ to performance or not.

[John.Murray]

Interesting!  After evaluating what is out there, I'm actually going to a Free-BSD based solution based on FreeNAS.

Refurbished Dells are not only dirt cheap, but very quiet - I picked a 2.3 Ghz Celeron tower, 256MB Ram for $130:

http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Pr...r_by/sell_price

With two IDE controllers - plenty of room for up to 4 drives, I'm starting with a pair of 400GB drives at $120 each:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...73390&CatId=134

I'm currently booting the O/S off of the supplied 20GB internal drive, but am working on moving the O/S to USB key, freeing up space for up to 2 addl drives:

http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=co...id=12&Itemid=26

Under $400 so far . . .

[DarkPenguin]

Thanks for the response.  I'm kind of hoping to get rid of that whole pc server thing.  It does give more flexibility.  Does anyone offer a bsd/linux NAS solution that strips EVERYTHING but the NAS from the equation?

I'm kind of leaning towards buying some simple single disk NAS enclosures.  They seem to be about $60 at newegg.