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Here at work they've given up and just purchased a big fat IDE drive that'll 
go in an old machine hooked up to the network.

I'd agree with you about a simple NAS being a good concept for home networks, 
except that since all the existing drives out there work with Windows and 
Macs, you've effectively narrowed it down to a tiny niche market of Linux or 
Unix home desktop users.  These are people who are even more likely to build 
their own solution. Basically, I think that if you went into this market with 
your mail selling point being Linux support, you'd be toast. Ah, the joys of 
being a relative minority ;)

On Friday 09 September 2005 2:16 pm, you wrote:
> I really don't think you will find exactly what you are looking for in a
> consumer grade appliance. One solution for a "network storage" device
> would be Iscsi, scsi commands over ethernet, but I think this puts your
> $ into the couple of zeros range. I saw recently a rack mounted storage
> system that uses PATA drives. Google search "PATA over ethernet". These
> would be true "networked" storage.
>
> Another thing would be to build a system yourself with mini-itx or nano-
> itx motherboards. This is the route I will take soon, If I cannot find a
> better solution.



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