[KLUG Members] FYI on Linux based NAS

[Bruce Smith]

> Thought the list would be interested to know that I recently purchased a
> Linksys (now owned by Cisco) EFG120 Network Attached Storage device. I chose
> Linksys over the competition because it uses embedded Linux for the NAS OS.
> Some of the vendors bury the info on the NAS OS in the docs. The competition
> offered both Linux and Microshaft based NAS. Talk about a no-brainer.
> 
> I stuck a second 120GB hard disk in the EFG120 clicked on format and I had
> 240GB for backing up data from client desktops. Total cost for 240GB was
> right around $800.
> 
> I am about to pickup a second NAS that is BSD based. It has built-in
> capability to do disk to disk backup. I can then use a free Java based tape
> backup program, AKGBackup, to archive specific data from the NAS to tape.
> There are lots of cool things going on in storage.

Sounds like a cool demo for a KLUG presentation!  :-)

 - BS