Experience with accessibility of hone NAS systems?

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by The Roman Battle Mask (Making great use of my Employer's time.) on Thursday, 22-Jan-2015 12:30:06

Does anyone have experience with the accessibility of any home NAS systems? I know a lot of them have a web interface but that does not mean they are usable.

Post 2 by Binary solo (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Thursday, 22-Jan-2015 14:28:01

I have a Lasie Networkspace 2. I can use it by mapping network drives and some of the functions of the html based dashboard. Many of those are however inaccessible. I can't for instance split my drive into many smaller peaces for many users.

Post 3 by ¤§¤spike¤§¤ (This site is so "educational") on Thursday, 22-Jan-2015 19:34:58

Hi,

I found a post regarding the accessibility of different NAS systems. The news isn't good.

http://mosen.org/index.php/my-new-synology-nas-great-product-nasty-accessibility/

Post 4 by The Roman Battle Mask (Making great use of my Employer's time.) on Saturday, 24-Jan-2015 13:33:34

After some more research I've decided to get a hard drive enclosure which will support eSata and will use software RAID in Windows 7. WHile I was looking at different options I found FreeNAS which is an operating system with a web interface specifically meant to be installed on a computer to use that computer as a NAS. I installed this in a virtual machine and the accessibility looks poor but usable, for example things are read with labels that include HTML tags but you can still hear the button name. I will probably package this as a virtualbox appliance so those interested can play with it to determine if they want to install on physical hardware.

Post 5 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 24-Jan-2015 13:42:48

A couple of years ago I had a terastation. The Web UI wasn't anything great but you could install Debian on it so I ended up doing that and controling it over SSH. nas-central.org is the place for that sort of stuff. To be honest I'd suggest building something yourself if accessibility is a problem. I can help with the hardware if required.

Post 6 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Saturday, 24-Jan-2015 13:45:51

Just saw your last post. Go with the highest RAID you can; most of the cheaper docs only have two bays so you can only do JBOD, 0 (avoid) or 1 but really if finances allow it you should try to do 5 or 6. I quite like the WD Red drives at the moment.

Post 7 by The Roman Battle Mask (Making great use of my Employer's time.) on Sunday, 25-Jan-2015 4:43:14

I have not found any 5 or 6 bay enclosures. I found a 4 bay for $99. The only issue is my motherboard only has 5 sata ports and I already have two drives in the desktop. I'm probably going to look and see if I can get a combo SATA and uSB3 PCI card.