Network Storage Device

[Praetorian]

I really don't want to go out and buy one of these things and would like to use my OLD 486DX for it. I dont want to run Windows or and big version of Linux. I want something that is really small and offers network support. I would imagine only one NIC would be needed for this. Is FREESCO any good? I know thats a router thing (dont need the router feature, already have one) but I heard you could also use that program for something like this. Someone give your repiles. Thanks.

[TOAD6147]

You need to give a little more detail about what it is you're trying to do and why.

[jamis]

Most network attacted storage devices (Ie: Network Appliance) are EXTREMELY expensive. I'm talking upwards of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for a 60+gig device.

A minimal linux install should probably be cheapest and the best all around performer. A network card, some hard disks, NFS and if you want to get fancy, samba. That's really all you'd need.

Not sure a 486 would cut it though..

[Praetorian]

I'm looking for something really small that would run on a 486. Nothing really graphical just something to configure and supports file transfers. I really don't wanna pay a lot for a network storage device so I thought one of these would be good. Someone recommend a program.

[Praetorian]

Well, I'm not planning on using really big disks (about 5gigs) because I'm only going to use it to back up file systems. Nothing special.

[jamis]

You can forgo all the bells and wistles with linux.. infact, there is a custom router version made to fit on a single floppy disk.

What I'm not sure about is how good your performance will be on a 486 handling multiple file transfers over the network... or even if you can get (or how well) large disks working on a system that old.