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Seagate’s New Home NAS

nick — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:48:28 +0000

Gizmodo has a summary of of Seagate’s new home NAS, the GoFlex Desk.

The NAS—they don’t want to call it a NAS—works just like most up-to-date NASes do: Time Machine support, streaming content to media players (Xbox 360, PS3) around your network, USB printer support, third-party real-time backup, remote access with your iPhone/iPad and smartphone as well as Facebook and Flickr integration.

via Now Seagate Has a Really Simple, Really Cheap Home NAS Solution.

Awesome Custom Built 16 TB Atom Powered NAS

nick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:20:48 +0000

Will Urbina has posted full build pics of a low power NAS using an Atom processor, HighPoint 8-port RAID card, and eight 2 TB SATA drives.

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Super Talent Introduces Value SSD Product Line – vSSD

nick — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:47:43 +0000

Super Talent released a value line of SATA SSDs that start at 8GB, which is enough space to install Linux or BSD comfortably.

SSDs are available now from Super Talent resellers worldwide at street prices ranging from about $65 for the 8GB model to around $175 for the 64GB model.

via Legit Reviews.

Systm Episode 60: Build Your Own NAS

nick — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:27:41 +0000

An older post, but still good, Systm walks through installing FreeNAS:

If you’re just itching for an excuse to reuse that retired desktop PC or laptop sitting in your closet there here’s your chance. Today we’ll be looking at the basics of installing FreeNAS, an open-source DIY NAS. So instead of spending money on off the shelf options why not save yourself some cash and make use of the stuff you already have and get a super customizable network storage device to boot.

via Revision3 > Systm > Episode 60: Build Your Own NAS.

Drobo FS 5-Bay NAS Released

nick — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:24:02 +0000

The Drobo FS is one of the first entry-level NAS systems to include 5-bays, most products in this class only support 4-bays. This means that the maximum capacity of the Drobo FS is 10TB, compared to 8TB in four-bay NAS units.

via StorageReview.com.

ZFS data integrity tested

nick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:46:45 +0000

Robin Harris over at the Storage Bits blog goes over a new UW-M paper analyzing the fault tolerance claims of ZFS.

File systems guard all the data in your computer, but most are based on 20-30 year old architectures that put your data at risk with every I/O. The open source ZFS from Sun Oracle claims high data integrity – and now that claim has been tested.

via ZFS data integrity tested | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap

nick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:48:18 +0000

Learn FreeNAS has posted a list of major features expected to appear in the 0.8 release of FreeNAS. Included are a base on FreeBSD 8 or 8.1, an interface built on Django, AHCI SATA drivers, UFS2 journaling, and more.

Learn FreeNAS » FreeNAS 0.8 Roadmap

Rumours of FreeNAS’ Death Greatly Exaggerated

nick — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:24:38 +0000

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

SATA-IO Releases SATA Revision 2.6 Specification

nick — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:55:17 +0000

DailyTech reports on the SATA update. Included with the new connectors are updates to NCQ which benefit desktop and laptop systems.

The latest SATA revision 2.6 adds new physical and performance features to the previous SATA revision 2.5, also referred to as SATA 3.0Gbps, specification.

The Hard Drive as Eye Candy

nick — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:19:58 +0000

The New York Times takes a look at the hard drive market.

Strong demand for external hard drives was one of the highlights in consumer electronics last year. Americans spent $600 million on external hard drives in 2006, an increase of 53 percent over 2005, according to NPD, a market research firm. Put another way, consumers bought 739.7 million gigabytes of hard-drive storage space last year, more than 11 times as much as they did in 2003.