Portable NAS
by Jesse on Apr.01, 2008, under General
This was written a while ago but never got posted for some reason – I want to say at least two months or so have passed and the solution below has been allmost bulletproof.
About once a month I have to reboot it. So much for Linux being the anti-Microsoft. 
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Just a two minute post while I sit in the Atlanta airport waiting for a connecting flight that might never come.
To the folks at Fry’s Electronics: You are evil. That’s the only explanation for putting a Fry’s on the road going to DFW (Dallas, TX) where geeks like me will get sucked into the vortex.
I bought a portable NAS box, (CIFS/NFS, nothing too glamorous) there for $209. Add two inexpensive 500G SATA drives in a Raid-1 config I now have a half-terabyte of static storage.
It’s a linux based system, very solidly put together, (IE Steel case, no rattles) and it performs very well, utilizing most of the Gig-E interface on the back of it.
In case anyone is interested, they have a few larger boxes as well, including support for iSCSI.