2011-03-02, 23:01
The IOcell NDAS units work very well as a simple NAS, and they have both a Gb Ethernet (highly recommended for video) and a USB 2.0 interface, but you can only use one at a time.
http://www.iocellnetworks.com/netdisk-so...fast/#Spec
A few yrs ago I bought the 352ND which is a 2 bay enclosure for $99, the drives can be kept separate or config'd together as a RAID 0 or 1 array. The NDAS driver makes them appear as a local drive even though they are actually network attached.
The single bay model at the link above goes for $64 on Newegg, but it looks like they revamped the 2 bay model since I bought mine.
Last summer I migrated to a conventional NAS by building a Debian Linux server with (4) 1TB drives configured as RAID5.
http://www.iocellnetworks.com/netdisk-so...fast/#Spec
A few yrs ago I bought the 352ND which is a 2 bay enclosure for $99, the drives can be kept separate or config'd together as a RAID 0 or 1 array. The NDAS driver makes them appear as a local drive even though they are actually network attached.
The single bay model at the link above goes for $64 on Newegg, but it looks like they revamped the 2 bay model since I bought mine.
Last summer I migrated to a conventional NAS by building a Debian Linux server with (4) 1TB drives configured as RAID5.