Synology CS-406: Speedy, Flexible RAID5 NAS
Bill Meade liked Synology's Cube Station so much that he just might swear off building his own RAID NASes.
BYOD
Synology DS-106e: One very full-featured NAS
Jim Buzbee found that Synology's latest disk station does just about everything that you'd want a single-drive NAS to do.
Head to Head: Tritton Simple NAS vs. Hawking Net-Storage Center
Low-cost hard drive enclosures have extended the useful life of many a spare hard drive by turning them into USB or Firewire-attached external drives. And now similar products are arriving to perform the conversion to Networked Attached Storage (NAS). Jim Buzbee takes a look at two low-cost offerings and finds sometimes you get what you pay for.
ADS NAS Drive kit
ADS Tech recently added a NAS kit to its line of IDE drive enclosures. Jim Buzbee was intrigued by its built-in BitTorrent capability, but found it to be more like a BitTrickle
Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 Part VI – Installing a Media Server
Jim Buzbee is back with his latest adventures in hacking Linksys' NSLU2. This time, he turns it into a UPnP-based media server - just the ticket if you'd like to free your PC from streaming media duties.
Synology DS-101 Disk Station
The DS-101 Disk Station is a SOHO NAS that gives buyers the option of supplying their own 3.5 inch drive. Jim Buzbee put it through its paces and was pretty impressed, except for one key feature.
ASUS 802.11g 54 Mbps WLAN Hard Drive Box Review
Compact 2.5 inch drive enclosure that provides Ethernet and 802.11g wireless NAS features. Functions as AP or wireless client. Includes DHCP and FTP servers
Revolution by Buffalo Kuro Box
An increasing number of consumer networking products are based on open source software. But manufacturer support of open source development efforts is usually limited to (sometimes) posting source code but more often just turning a blind eye as dedicated hackers add missing capability and improved features. Buffalo Technology's new Revolution division is taking a different approach of embracing open source developers and producing products made to be hacked. Jim Buzbee takes a look at the first fruits of the Revolution, the Kuro Box.
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 – Part 5- Moving to Unslung
In Part 5 of his Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 series, Jim Buzbee introduces us to the Unslung firmware that is the next step in the evolution of this little box into a general-purpose Open Source application platform.
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 – Part 4- Customizing the Flash
Part 4 of Jim Buzbee's series shows how to modify the NSLU2's flash so that you can automate the startup of the other hacks and open the door to even more customizations.
How To:Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 – Part 3 – Adding an iTunes server
Our third installment of Jim Buzbee's series walks you step-by-step through adding iTunes serving to the tricks that Linksys' little wonder can perform.
How To: Hacking the Linksys NSLU2 – Part 2 – Adding NFS
In the second installment of Jim Buzbee's explorations of Linksys' little NAS-enabling marvel, he explains how to get set up to do your own hacking and walks us through adding NFS support.