*luke-HOT!* Netgear brings NAS (zSAN) to market about $100

[RideFree]

CircuitCity.
Netgear SC101.


IDE drives sold separately
System Requirements: Windows? NT, 2000 (SP4), XP Home or Pro (SP1 or SP2)
Compatible only with IDE (Parallel ATA) drives
(Just when you thought you were going to make the switch over to SATA or SATA II.)

Looks to me like there will be a big run on EIDE.

WhitePaper on ZSAN

PS Before you shoot the messenger, this may take a while to percolate to the stores. CDW says they will have them in two weeks. (Just enough time to start the rebate process on your new EIDWs.)

 

[RideFree]

Just maybe...Cheap NAS doesn't have to be defective anymore.

 

[flot]

Is this that remarkable? How is this different than the network devices which allowed you to attach external USB hard drives?

 

[bolomite]

does it toast bagels also?

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: bolomite
does it toast bagels also?

I think you have to have the Netgear SC101B for that.
Sure looks like a toaster (or modern piggy bank with the cute, curley, cat5 cable attached).

 

[mikeford]

Find out more in the thread on cheap nas boxen, http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1685043&enterthread=y

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I am guessing this is just the first of the "better" network boxes to show up, can't really say more until it really is shipping.

The big factor with all of these nas/san boxes is how seamless and fast is access on a desktop compared to a local drive. I don't know it, but suspect devices that attach via USB are going to be klunkier when all the network layers etc get added to it.

 

[Souka]

Big problem with these consumer NAS devices is that they're FAT32 only...


I'll keep my Snap! server and it's NTFS Raid 1 or 0 config thank you....

 

[prochobo]

Also, these things need to come with GIGABIT interfaces. 100mbps is too slow.

 

[cmetz]

This is a SAN, not a NAS. And a totally proprietary one that is hopelessly Windows only.

 

[mikeford]

Froogle has a few places with the SC101 around $110, but I didn't see anybody with stock.

BTW it isn't clear if the two drives are mirror only, or double storage.

 

[RideFree]

hopelessly Windows only

Groan!
I empathize with that. If only I had less of an investment in Windows...

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: mikeford
BTW it isn't clear if the two drives are mirror only, or double storage.

Whitepaper sez it'll do either/or. I think you can even declare partitioning, assign a drive letter and optionally raid it/them or share/hide/assign attributes. We'll see.

 

[IlLogiK]

I have a kuro box... and while I'm not in the "know" about these things, I find it to be a very fast and reliable NAS built on a *nix distro...

www.kuro.com (I think)

 

[RideFree]

Originally posted by: Souka
Big problem with these consumer NAS devices is that they're FAT32 only...
I'll keep my Snap! server and it's NTFS Raid 1 or 0 config thank you....

Snap, isn't that iSCSI?
iSCSI builds a tunnel inside IP and moves the entire SCSI protocol.

 

[cremefilled]

With entire computer systems under $200 (e.g., GQ system at Outpost periodically goes for sale at $150), I'd rather have the flexibility and expandability of a file server. Now, if this thing was NTFS and stored 4 IDE drives, I might reconsider.

 

[RegisteredJack]

With HDD costs dropping, I'd rather wait for the SATA version...

 

[vladgur]

With such a nice weather outside, Id rather be surfing

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: cremefilled
With entire computer systems under $200 (e.g., GQ system at Outpost periodically goes for sale at $150), I'd rather have the flexibility and expandability of a file server. Now, if this thing was NTFS and stored 4 IDE drives, I might reconsider.

My thoughts exactly. Limit of two drives, and lack of NTFS suck.

 

[RideFree]

Tomshardware does a review on this appliance (toaster look-alike).

 

[Steelerz37]

Originally posted by: bolomite
does it toast bagels also?

heh, it does look like a toaster

 

[Twingo]

Damn the reviews sound terrible. Why can't it just look like a windows network share. Why need a client ? So silly...

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: cremefilled
With entire computer systems under $200 (e.g., GQ system at Outpost periodically goes for sale at $150), I'd rather have the flexibility and expandability of a file server. Now, if this thing was NTFS and stored 4 IDE drives, I might reconsider.

And SATA w/ hotswapping + DDR cache. But then they'd probably want more than $100.

 

[adlep]

Wrong thread...

 

[bgovanlu]

I had a need for one of these and I'm rather happy with it. I can share the drive on a PC that has the client and any OSX Mac will use it just fine. Performace to the Mac isn't much different than on the PC with the client. Just have to live with the PC's NIC and CPU being used in that manner.

 

[mikeford]

Have you tried any speed benchmarks?

Doesn't this box support some faster access mode too? NAS or SAN or some such.