From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 13 14:10:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manston.placeware.com (manston.placeware.com [209.1.15.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4789B37B424 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aberwrach.le-berre.com (dhcp184.placeware.com [209.1.15.184]) by manston.placeware.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id R4PJZY01; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:11:36 -0700 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20000913135428.018ad9b8@manston.placeware.com> X-Sender: philippe.le.berre/le-berre.com@212.129.1.43 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:13:02 -0700 To: Sriranga Veeraraghavan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Philippe Le Berre Subject: Re: Has anyone used a Quantum SnapServer with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <200009132007.NAA20255@soda.csua.Berkeley.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 13/09/2000 13:07 -0700, Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote: >[ msg cc'ed privately ] > > > Linksys makes one that runs linux, Mike Smith hacked it to run > > FreeBSD. I am looking into the netgear nd508, and see what it runs, > > and if it can run FreeBSD. The good thing about that big > > Snapserver, is the RAID5 on it. > >[ NOTE: I don't have anything to do with seagate, beyond owning a few > hawk and barracuda drive, I've just seen a few of their > boxes. ] > >I believe that Seagate's runs Linux as well and has Raid 0, 1 and 5 >support as well. Seagate web site refers to xiotech inc that they've acquired. Although Xiotech product seems to be good it's high-end SAN with fiber whereas I am just looking for affordable Network based storage that can handle NT & FreeBSD clients. Linksys is only selling RAID 1 products, Cobalt only RAID 0 and Network Appliances products are just over-my-budget. As far as I know the SnapServer 4000 is the only affordable RAID5 NAS (<3K$) available on the market. The fact that SnapServer NFS stack doesn't support much security shouldn't be in a big issue in my case. Thanks for all the feedbacks! -philippe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message