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Posted at 7:52 AM on Monday 03/16/09 by
Ben
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    duorah - Posted 8:45 am PDT 03/16/09 (24 Posts)  Report Spam

    This one is pretty nice. It is based on Linux and there are a lot of free software available to enhance its capabilities.

    http://wiki.dns323bacon/

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    fearthefarmers - Posted 10:24 am PDT 03/16/09 (115 Posts)  Report Spam

    Buyer beware, it has slow transfer speeds over the network. It says gigabyte speeds but I could only acheive 16-17 MBps.And yes I have a gigabyte network.

    If you check the forums or reviews on newegg people will report the same problem.

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    tsunami982 - Posted 10:56 am PDT 03/16/09 (95 Posts)  Report Spam

    Thanks #2. I was just about to buy it until I read your post. The whole point of this thing for me was the gigabit speed over LAN. Thanks for saving me some $$, time, and disappointment.

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    dadealmeister - Posted 11:34 am PDT 03/16/09 (44 Posts)  Report Spam

    Use Freenas instead. www.freenas.org

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    doesgof - Posted 2:44 pm PDT 03/16/09 (565 Posts)  Report Spam

    agree with #4, convert an old machine or buy an atom based machine and throw 2 drives, linux with software raid, 2 big fat sata drive and you can use the machine for a printer server and a firewall as well. nas at these prices is ridiculous, especially since most of these run your drives on full power, 24/7 - that will seriously degrade the life of your drives.

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