Do It Yourself NAS

X-bit labs reviews the QNAP TS-219P Turbo NAS.

The Tech Report has benchmarks of the new USB 3.0 standard. They’re compared against USB 2.0 and eSATA.

StorageNerve has benchmarks for the 4-slot Drobo connected using USB 2.0 and Firewire 800.

Backblaze details how they build a 67 TB 4U storage server for less than $8,000. C0T0D0S0 then takes a look at some of the trade offs of the device against much more expensive systems.

Learn FreeNAS posted news that FreeNAS is no longer dropping FreeBSD for Debian, but will add a Debian based version of FreeNAS called OpenMediaVault.