[mdlug] NAS Recommendations

[Mike Mikowski]

Wow.  ReadyNAS looks like a virtual clone of Synology (Synology's NAS admin has been around since at least 2012; readyNAS was announced a in 2013).

That doesn't mean ReadyNAS is inferior.  Just later to the party.  It does look like synology have a slight edge in the number (and likely maturity) of click to run apps, though.

On Mar 15, 2014 9:24 AM, "Carl T. Miller" <carl at carltm.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Adkins II wrote: 
> > Does anyone have expereince with Teamf1.com's NASS system? It lists 
> > NT Domain authentication as one of the security options  and also shows 
> > per 
> > file/folder permissions that can be assigned to "users", I'm curious to 
> > know 
> > if it can also assign/understand group membership as well. I would prefer 
> > to 
> > assign group permissions to files stored on the system, rather than have 
> > to 
> > add each user to each shared resource. 
> > 
> > This is the kind of product that I am looking for. 
>
>
> Look at the ReadyNAS product line.  I use one of the business 
> models and it does everything I want.  It even has two nics, so 
> I use one for management and file shares, and the other for 
> iscsi connections to my kvm hosts. 
>
> I'll bet the ReadyNAS I have supports authentication from a DC, 
> but if not I would set up a restricted share that can only be 
> accessed by the guest running samba. 
>
> One nice feature is that you can buy an extra ReadyNAS and have 
> it backup the first one.  Combine that with a guest running 
> backuppc and you'll have a good method to backup everything 
> you want to keep. 
>
> c 
>
>
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