[clug] Dual-ported disks - or accessing disks from 2 systems

[Andrew Janke]

2008/8/14 David <david at tulloh.id.au>:
> Andrew Janke wrote:
>> At the risk of sounding trite, why not just one of these cheap LAN
>> disk (NAS) systems?
>>
>> Cheap. accessible.
>
> The product that you link to is 500G of capacity wired in raid 1 and at
> $430 I wouldn't call it cheap.

True, I am guilty of just using my current supplier of choice's
website and typing in NAS... :)

> A better comparison would be the Thecus N4100+, which is the same
> manufacturer but a four drive product that can run RAID 5.

I have heard good things about these (a friend in Brisbane has one)
but then he uses "the OS from the dark side"..


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