http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/ Engadget Comments for Buffalo's TeraStation Pro NAS bumped to 4TB http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/May 16th 2007 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/May 16th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.pcquest.com/content/enterprise/2007/107020406.asp
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From there, I would use linux. You could either go with software RAID for redundancy or just use LVM. LVM would give you the ability to add harddrives as you need them or can afford them and add them into the LVM with out loosing data, but maintaining a huge drive since it spans across all of them.

Then just run Samba or NFS, depending on your environment to share your NAS with your computers.

If you are hesitant about using linux, check out FreeNAS (based on BSD, but essentially the same thing as linux), it takes care of all the hard work for you and gives you a nice easy interface to setup everything. There are also other linux/BSD distros like this, like NASLite, OpenFiler. Right now FreeNAS seems to one of the most propular and seems to work from my experiance.]]>May 16th 2007 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/
In reality you'll only be seeing it listed as about 3.63TB in the operating system.]]>May 16th 2007 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/16/buffalos-terastation-pro-nas-bumped-to-4tb/
I'd love a slim, energy efficient model like those of Planex with Bittorrent facilities that run when the PCs are all turned off.

hn's link to the PCQuest project is interesting (though I am not sure about the pink rubber gloves!).
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