Save Time, Custom Linux NAS in the UK

[thattommyhall]

Hello guys, I've been using slimserver on my custom NAS's for about 3 months now.

There seems to be a gap in the market for a NAS powerful enough to run the latest slimserver with cpu hungry plugins like AlienBBC.
This is a bespoke Linux solution, configured to work out of the box with options to 8x750G drives.
It can update to the latest slimserver by issuing one command, has an AJAX themed web admin.
Ive also got uPnP AV, iTunes server (mt-daapd)
See http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=74B71E73EBEB53E7 for video of it in action (1min13 sec to get it mounted as Z:\ drive in windows)
Check out prices at www.customstorage.co.uk
As they are built to order i can upgrade CPU, memory and give you a choice of SATA disks. Get in touch at customstorage@gmail.com for a custom quote.
Turn around is about 10 days.

Hope to get a few of you sorted with a high quality NAS.

Tom Hall

[Blubbels]

How does buying something fit into the Do-It-Yourself forum?

How's there a "gap" in the market when every computer shop can put 4 harddisks and a cheap motherboard into the cheap standard PC case shown on your site? Is it just that only every second manufacturer can preinstall Debian/Ubuntu?

Why do you call it a "NAS"? If you use the term that broadly, you could call every PC a NAS, since every PC with a networking adapter is about equal to it. Where's the small form factor, low power consumption, etc.?

Where's your address, phone number on that page? all the stuff required on a commercial website...

How comes that the page is missing the probably required reference to the GPL?

[thattommyhall]

How does buying something fit into the Do-It-Yourself forum?

Because it can save people who are considering building their own some time (hence the title). Time costs money and I know some people will see the time saved as good value (add up the hardware cost and you can decide if its good value for you - If you can get over the learning curve in a short enough time then congratulations. I have put in a lot of work behind the scenes, testing optimal settings for mdraid and the xfs filesystem, making sure raid cards work well together and lots more)



How's there a "gap" in the market when every computer shop can put 4 harddisks and a cheap motherboard into the cheap standard PC case shown on your site? Is it just that only every second manufacturer can preinstall Debian/Ubuntu?

Because the ReadyNAS can't support all the plugins people may want to use, QNAP seems expensive for what you get, I think mine is a good choice in the trade off between power, size, features and price. I've not seen any custom setups in the UK or I would have considered them.



Why do you call it a "NAS"? If you use the term that broadly, you could call every PC a NAS, since every PC with a networking adapter is about equal to it. Where's the small form factor, low power consumption, etc.?

I think calling it a NAS is fair play, that's its main function. Network Attached Storage does not necessarily imply small form factor, low power consumption etc (and there is a trade off if one has those things)



Where's your address, phone number on that page? all the stuff required on a commercial website...
How comes that the page is missing the probably required reference to the GPL?
I think that is your most legitimate complaint and ill address it ASAP

I am sorry you seem personally offended at my offering these items, I assumed people would either buy them or not (or offer constructive feedback as to what they really want) but don't really understand where you are coming from.

All the very best, Tom

[Blubbels]

This is the Do-It-Yourself forum. If people do not want to do it themselves, they don't come here probably ;)

I'm living in Germany, not in the UK, but if I go to one of the hundreds or thousands of small computer stores here, and ask them to build me a low-cost PC with 4 or 8 harddisks and install Debian or Ubuntu onto it, they'll do so. I doubt the UK is more backwards in that regard.

NAS means Network Attached Storage, yes. If you do not want any trade-offs, you'll get a "file server" or just "server". NAS actually means some trade-offs for other advantages. But then, selling a "file server" is not as hype as naming it "NAS".

Calling your machines a NAS is like calling a normal notebook a subnotebook. Both are for mobile use, but that's it.

Anyway, why I am "offended" is probably because you do commercial advertisement on this otherwise great forum. If every computer shop that does build file servers would advertise here, the forum would simply get unusable. A fitting frame for this forum would have been - imho - to describe your endeavours in detail, and then make your offer for those who feel not fit enough for it. But just plain and simple advertisement for your commercial enterprise: why not ask SlimDevices for paid banner space? I mean, this is not a public place, but the forum of SlimDevices. You wouldn't go and post bills in your friends apartments or in offices of other companies in real live either, would you? Even if you sell great winter tires people really need, you just don't go to the next Vauxhaul dealer and post bills on their walls, rights?


I assumed people would either buy them or not

I do not like the quite function, but I had to quote that, because you'll probably notice a similarity... that's exactly what spammers say about their Viagra...