Home SAN solutions?

[Foo]

Been looking around at getting some form of home SAN solution, mainly because we've got 3 machines in regular use in this house (my desktop, laptop and the general house PC).

I've been looking at the following:

Netgear SC-101
Pros - 2 drive slots, could use up some old IDE drives I have lying about. RAID.
cons - Custom driver needed to connect to the box. No extra features. No drive included

Icybox NAS2000-B
Pros - Small, low power, straightforwards.
Cons - Expensive for such a basic unit. Single drive limit.

Qnap TS-101
Pros - Full features, RAID, bittorrent downloads, basic web server with PHP and SQLite
Cons - Moderate reviews, expensive, no drives.

Synology DS-106E
Pros - Full features, bittorrent downloads, complete web server with PHP and MySQL, Media Server
Cons - Expensive, no drives, BT support supposedly a bit dodgy, no raid



I'm leaning towards the last one. It's a sweet piece of kit and I can bundle it with a 320Gb drive for ~£225

Anyone had any experience with home NAS setups, or any of these?

[Foo]

No-one here has one, do they?

[AmIdYfReAk]

Sorry mang, my media center is my NAS..

the Qnap looks to be ther beter one there though.

[Foo]

I'm favouring the Synology over the Qnap one because the Qnap unit lacks MySQL. Aside from that though the Qnap one does have a raid option...

[Scourge]

SAN? Indoor plumbing is nice too.

[Foo]

Yeah I spotted it after I typed it out. I've built and managed SAN and NAS solutions in work before now, so i know the difference. Yet I never seem to consider it when I'm writing =/

[+JuggerNaut+]

check out slashdot, they had an article today on a new ASUS router that has a built-in 160GB drive and a native torrent client. I'm tempted since not having to leave on the PC would mean a mint in power savings.

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... light=asus

[Foo]

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