Inexpensive NAS (network storage) solutions?

[Neil Maxwell]

I'm looking at the recent offerings in inexpensive plug-n-play NAS IDE
drives as a way of adding storage capacity and some automated backup
space.

I'm thinking about something like TrueImage to run scheduled backups
to the NAS. Any drawbacks to this type of system in a simple home
network running XP?

TIA,



Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer

 

[Rod Speed]

I'm looking at the recent offerings in inexpensive
plug-n-play NAS IDE drives as a way of adding
storage capacity and some automated backup space.

I'm thinking about something like TrueImage to run
scheduled backups to the NAS. Any drawbacks to this
type of system in a simple home network running XP?

Not really apart from the problem with price.

 

[Neil Maxwell]

Not really apart from the problem with price.

They're getting down to the $250 range for 120G NAS boxes. While it's
more expensive than local storage or standard USB/FW boxes (which I
already have), I'm willing to pay a small premium for the flexibility.

I'm concerned that they're not very mature yet, though.


Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer

 

[Rod Speed]

They're getting down to the $250 range for 120G NAS
boxes. While it's more expensive than local storage or
standard USB/FW boxes (which I already have), I'm
willing to pay a small premium for the flexibility.

I'm concerned that they're not very mature yet, though.

Thats certainly true with the cheap ones. Someone was howling
in here just the other day about their's only being half implemented.

http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

The bleeding edge aint called the bleeding edge for nothing.

I just meant that there is nothing special about a home
XP network with them, not that they dont have their
downsides just because they are the bleeding edge.