[clug] cheap NAS and NDAS

[Andrew Loughhead]

Any suggestions / warnings on cheap NAS with gigabit ethernet?

Welland single drive enclosures, for example, seem to be about $130.  
They don't provide cifs or nfs interfaces though, instead they use some 
variant of ATA-over-ethernet called NDAS.  Which is bad for needing 
client driver support, but good for performance.  There is a linux 
driver available at http://code.ximeta.com/trac-ndas, which looks like 
its actively maintained, if in permanent beta. 

There are single drive enclosures with support for cifs, ftp and so on 
but gigabit ethernet ones seem to start about $220.