[ale] cheap network attached storage?

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jay Loden wrote:
> I'm looking to pick up a network attached storage device, something along the 
> order of these (home size, not enterprise ones with lots of zeroes in the 
> price): 
> 
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=207
> 
> I want it for running backups from a couple Linux machines over a 
> network...however, none of these devices says anything about how it works, 
> just that they "appear as a drive on each computer on the network" 
> 
> Fine if you're running Windows, but what about Linux boxes? Does anyone know 
> of a solution like this that will let me run backups onto a drive over the 
> network when I'm running Linux? I'd prefer not to set up Samba just to talk 
> Windows-speak to one of these devices.

Costco has a 250G Maxtor (one touch II) external drive for about $200. 
Firewire and usb 2.0, but not really a nas device.  Stick that puppy on 
one of your boxes and back up to it.  I know that will tie up one 
computer that it would be connected to during backups, but when do you 
do them?  I backup around 3am...

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Until later, Geoffrey