Sans Digital offers up AccuNAS AN2L 2-bay NAS enclosure
By Darren Murph 
posted July 12th 2008 10:51AM
posted July 12th 2008 10:51AM
posted July 12th 2008 10:51AM
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WOW How much is this? Was there a price mentioned?
Neat.
The prices are listed on the site when you click "buy now"
It's $362 with no drives,
add $190 for 2 250GB drives,
or $300 more for 2 500GB drives
or $600 more for 2 750GB drives
or $890 more for 2 1TB drives
This is stupid when i can use FreeNAS and build it myself in a shuttle.
If the case was
$362 for the diskless version, apparently - http://bit.ly/AccuNAS
I hope they change the name before they make a 4-bay model.
It's certainly one way of drawing attention to your product.
No way, I've been saving up for some AN4L.
It took my polish brain a second to get that... and another second to just say, WOW.
why do these units cost so much on the base. I know they are small but they tend to overheat and break down. Now if i had a little more it would be a full size computer case but i can create a nas lite server with 4 time the storage capacity for less than the cost of the deluxe model.
Absolutely agree with you, vannyx
The price of all these NAS systems are totaly unacceptable. Think about Netgear's NASs(>1000), you can use that money to build a entry level Xeon Server with even more space!($500 for the system and $500 for hard drives)
$362 just for a box with some software you can get it free from Linux(and you can also add emule if you need). Based on most reviews online, the speed of most NASs are also poor. Copmanies should pay more time to optimize their softwares and offer much better speed. Moreover, I think they can try to add a small built-in UPS just for protecting the user's data.
Not sure about the music playback on PS3/XBOX but aren't all the other features realiezed by other NAS products? They're not unheard of... (and I mean all in one package, not seperatelly)
exactly. would be nice if it was 3 drivers and supported raid5 at this price point.
That's a kinky name.
anyone else thought it said ANAL @ first?
Don't be so AN2L retentive.
Jesus that thing looks almost IDENTICAL to my Synology DS-207+. I mean, there's no "C" button to auto-copy the contents of the USB drive on the front port, and the lights are different, but aside from that the shell, the feet, the ports and back structure, the number of ports (except the eSATA port) and overall dimensions are IDENTICAL.
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I just bought a Synology DS-107, which is single bay and does all the same (BT, itunes, etc...). The two bay ones are about the same as the Sans Digital. However it also supports eSATA which will come in handy for upgrading externally.
No firewire? Awww.
I am not sure if its a difference between mac or pc, as well as a difference in the hard drive, but Firewire transfers for me are crazy fast.
Not to mention I don't have to waste another USB port. I have 3 USB hubs daisy-chained, and even so I am using all 9 of my ports (excluding my ports for the hubs themselves.
Are you limited to 10 users at a time such as with windows, or can as many people log on at once that are on the LAN. I'm looking to get rid of my server (Windows XP prof) since I have more than 10 users and as it stands now someone has to log off to allow someone to log on.
Finally glad to see a company putting some mirroring on these things.
Now if Apple would just tweak OS X to play nice with NAS, buying hardware like this might make sense. As it stands now support for NAS is minimal and network file transfers in OS X are slow and plagued with naming and "illegal" character issues.
FreeNAS uses other protocols and File systems. 48hrs of uptime and i am telling everyone i know about it. that is how good it is.
I've been running FreeNAS for atleast a year, probably even 2. It is rock solid. I have 2 machines running it, a 300mhz PII and a 550 PIII, works great. I never turn them off, they only turn off when the power goes out and if that happens that come right back up anyways.
The casing is very similar to DLink DNS323 NAS...... is the casing outsourced from the same chinese company?
Sounds perfect... except the price. Seriously, WTF? My Buffalo Linkstation, which I easily hacked to add the same functionality, was a 1/3rd the price!