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et101

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Hi,
I'm looking for a NAS, but all the available stuff I know of in our wonderful country of South Africa can not integrate with my active directory. Do any of you guys know where I can get a NAS that can do this. I only need about a terrabyte or so of space. I was looking at the baxter creek from intel, but no dice.
 
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the coolest ive found is the Intel SS4000-E. it does not do AD but you can map it as a drive with a simple vb script... and its SATA based with RAID 5.
 
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I was lookin at the SS4000-E. It is the Baxter Creek. I need AD.
 
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et101 said:
I'm looking for a NAS, but all the available stuff I know of in our wonderful country of South Africa can not integrate with my active directory. Do any of you guys know where I can get a NAS that can do this.
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Meh, why buy when you can DIY it? Sure, on the one hand buying one, which for you is a moot point anyway, gets you the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from buying an appliance; but OTOH going DIY lets you spec things out exactly, as well as more than likely save yourself a wad of cash!

As to NAS that can integrate with AD, take a look at Openfiler (a full CentOS-based Linux distro, and has a HUGE array of options) and FreeNAS which is a LOT smaller, and I'm not too sure that it's quite up to speed re AD.


I only need about a terrabyte or so of space.
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You may mean "terabyte" there :D .."terra" has, inter alia, a more 'earthy' meaning. (sorry, I couldn't resist!)

edit: that SS4000-E is one nifty, nicely integrated li'l package alright! See here for what's going on inside.
 
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What about the Netgear SC101? Link +-R1000
I have a SC101 and its pretty awesome, not sure if this will work for u tho...
 
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dabouncer said:
What about the Netgear SC101? Link
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At a max of only two drives, you can see why that li'l box is so cheap. Don't know that it'd be a good idea for this application though.. with 2 drives you get 'RAID' 0, which is functionally useless from a safety POV & RAID 1 which, while will do the job, isn't enough given the requirement for 1TB (with, naturally, room for more in due course).
 
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Valid points... Sounds like u need to do a custom box bush mechanics style because that looks like an expensive outfit... :)
 
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So would you say the have2have price is good. I just thought that an online shopping site cant sell the stuff cheaper than a direct importer. Does anyone know of have2have? Can I trust them?
 
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Bud o' mine bought his (the 1st we'd ever physically seen) iPod Nano from them when they were the ONLY people in town with them. And considering that, at the time, they were bleeding edge latest tech which usually means a good healthy premium, their price wasn't too bad at all.

As far as getting it went: he phoned in an order, hopped in his car and went and got it; I don't recall any being jerked around at all. So, my vote is they're OK, but it IS based on limited experience..
 
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I am thinking of building my own. Gonna save me a lot of money and frustration. Thanks everyone for the advice. If you have more keep them coming!
 
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willirob said:
something like this: http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/2005/105041201.asp
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While I fully support looking at a DIY alternative (see post #4 above), I'd file NASlite in 3rd place below Openfiler and FreeNAS for this particular situation. By which I don't mean that it's a BAD offering, just not equipped with the required feature, being AD integration.

From the page:
By design, NASLite v1.x is a community file server and does not support features such as user management , the ability to join domains or disk quotas.
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Even their top-end offering isn't AD capable ..AND costs USD25! ..and yet Openfiler is free and does support AD, quotas and all sorts of fun things - which one do YOU wanna use?
 
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I think FreeNAS. It looks like the best one to me. Wich one would you recommend? Other thing, if I am going to build my own NAS, what do you guys think is the best and/or cost effective system?
 
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et101 said:
I think FreeNAS. It looks like the best one to me. Wich one would you recommend?
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So AD integration is now NOT so important? ;) ..oh well, minds change and all that. Anyhow, I've done a FreeNAS box; on a 128MB CF card (it needs only 16, but GFL buying a 32MB CF card nowadays!), on the CF adapter Miro sells and it worked out well ..just be careful to follow the cookbook *exactly* WRT setting drives and accounts.
Other thing, if I am going to build my own NAS, what do you guys think is the best and/or cost effective system?
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FreeNAS lets you install on a CF card/USB drive (the latter is dead handy if your motherboard supports it) which means your boot device is cheap(er) than a new drive. Openfiler is a full Linux (specialised) distro, so it'll want a drive to itself ..but then if you've got the tom to buy 3 (or 4, or even 5) disks to get you up to 1TB of RAID5 storage, you've also got the dosh to buy a li'l 40gig drive for boot! It really comes down to what you wanna do!
 
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et101 said:
Hi,
I'm looking for a NAS, but all the available stuff I know of in our wonderful country of South Africa can not integrate with my active directory. Do any of you guys know where I can get a NAS that can do this. I only need about a terrabyte or so of space. I was looking at the baxter creek from intel, but no dice.
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Look at the new HP stuff. I have an older HP NAS with 6 x 18GB disks at home for buggering around on and supports AD.

I'm looking for a way to upgrade the disks to 146 but it doesn't look like it can be done:(
 
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JUGGY said:
Look at the new HP stuff. I have an older HP NAS with 6 x 18GB disks at home for buggering around on and supports AD.
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Nice as branded hardware is, it can be hella expensive! :eek: ..and I looked at the HP offering, no small amount of the cost of that is paying for Windoze 2003 Storage Server (which further raises the question of licencing, CALs and all that (seeing as it always seems to come up with M$ stuff)).

I'm looking for a way to upgrade the disks to 146 but it doesn't look like it can be done:(
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What's the model number of the one you have? ..while you may not be able to get from 18GB (80pin SCSI, yes?) disks (and do you REALLY want to buy 146GB SCSI disks??!) it may be possible to get you something else that'd still get you more space than you have now...
 
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