Mark Kirby wrote:
> On Sunday 13 August 2006 05:43, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> I'm thinking about purchasing a BYOD NAS system, and I'm wondering what
>> ones folks have gotten running with NetBSD, if any.
>>
>> My goals are
>>
>>     1) performance - I want to serve homedirs and tools off it, so
>> performance is important to me
>>     2) extensible -- ideally NetBSD is ported (or can easily be ported)
>> to it.  I want to run
>>     3) power consumption.  low consumption is important
>>     4) cost.  i don't have a fortune to spend on this.
>>     5) USB 2.0 extensibility.
>>     6) internal IDE drive (performance and power indicates this)
>>
>> I wouldn't complain if it had hardware crypto for VPN (or maybe WLAN) or
>> somesuch, but those are lower considerations.
>>
>> Any particular suggestions?  I know about NSLU2, but its external only,
>> and frankly, at the lower end of the performance spectrum.  What I don't
>> know is what other ones can run NetBSD.
>>     
>
> You could try the I-O DATA HDL-G "Giga LANDISK"
>
> http://www.iodata.com/products/products.php?cat=MIJ&sc=REV&pId=HDL-G400U&ts=2&tsc=
>
> from the blurb:
>
> "HDL-G400U is a 400GB model of the network HDD products. FTP 719.0Mbps max 
> speed is achieved by Intel XScaleŽ technology, IntelŽ 82541PI giga ethernet 
> bridge, 7,200rpm high speed HDD, and DDR SDRAM 128MB.
> The 4 ports of USB2.0 I/F can connect USB printers / storages."
>
> Mark
>
>   

This looks interesting.  Unfortunately it isn't obvious to me how much
it costs or how I can purchase it (at least from their website).  I'll
research more tomorrow.

-- 
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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