Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 22, 2006 12:28 PM
I can honestly affirm that setting up a NASLite box is hands down the most easy installation I have ever done in over 25 years of tinkering with 'homebrew' computers.
To put it simply, it 'just works' right out of the box, something almost no full fledged LINUX distro I have experimented with over the years can say. No messy config scripts to mess with, no editing files, no googling all over the Net for info on how to set up this or that. Just boot the machine, enter very basic setup info and you're up and running. The ability to run 'headless' is fabulous, IMHO, and is certainly not an option of a traditional LINUX disto, as far as I know.
Another great feature is that NASLite can sit totally shielded behind your router, yet you can map drives on the NASLite to any other machine on your network, which lets you serve data from your NASLite to the internet on a different machine, yet keep the NASLite data protected from unauthorized access.
I've also taken a very hard look at FreeNAS, and while it does offer some additional features that NASLite, lacks, I have to concur that although the developer certainly deserves tremendous kudos for his efforts in creating, developing, and maintaining FeeNAS, it appears that his workload and backlog of 'issues' and 'requests' seems to far outstrip his resources, and assistance from others in the Open Source Community seems to be mininal at best.
I have plans underway for a much bigger server with SCSI RAID, CD & DVD subsystems, and perhaps a thin client or two, none of which NASLite or FreeNAS can support. I've also looked at Clark Connect Home for this project.
In the end, I'll most likely wind up using SUSE or some other similar LINUX distro for the new server, and I can guarantee that I won't get it up and running in 1/1000th of the time it took to set up the NASLite box, which will sit in a corner in my computer room, humming along quite reliably, serving up to 5 different multimedia steams to 5 different computers without a single hiccup, while I gnash my teeth and pull at my hair trying to get the new server set up and configured using a full distro.
For what it supposed to do, a simple, easy to use NAS device, NASLite is hands down the best, and most cost effective solution I have ever found.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 22, 2006 12:28 PMTo put it simply, it 'just works' right out of the box, something almost no full fledged LINUX distro I have experimented with over the years can say. No messy config scripts to mess with, no editing files, no googling all over the Net for info on how to set up this or that. Just boot the machine, enter very basic setup info and you're up and running. The ability to run 'headless' is fabulous, IMHO, and is certainly not an option of a traditional LINUX disto, as far as I know.
Another great feature is that NASLite can sit totally shielded behind your router, yet you can map drives on the NASLite to any other machine on your network, which lets you serve data from your NASLite to the internet on a different machine, yet keep the NASLite data protected from unauthorized access.
I've also taken a very hard look at FreeNAS, and while it does offer some additional features that NASLite, lacks, I have to concur that although the developer certainly deserves tremendous kudos for his efforts in creating, developing, and maintaining FeeNAS, it appears that his workload and backlog of 'issues' and 'requests' seems to far outstrip his resources, and assistance from others in the Open Source Community seems to be mininal at best.
I have plans underway for a much bigger server with SCSI RAID, CD & DVD subsystems,
and perhaps a thin client or two, none of which NASLite or FreeNAS can support. I've also looked at Clark Connect Home for this project.
In the end, I'll most likely wind up using SUSE or some other similar LINUX distro for the new server, and I can guarantee that I won't get it up and running in 1/1000th of the time it took to set up the NASLite box, which will sit in a corner in my computer room, humming along quite reliably, serving up to 5 different multimedia steams to 5 different computers without a single hiccup, while I gnash my teeth and pull at my hair trying to get the new server set up and configured using a full distro.
For what it supposed to do, a simple, easy to use NAS device, NASLite is hands down the best, and most cost effective solution I have ever found.
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