What's the best solution for file sharing in my case? DAS or NAS?
- by jakub
I want to have in my network small, cheap and energy efficient server with will be fully customizable (Gnu/Linux, OpenBSD). What is more I want to have big, redundant storage in my network and access to it via server.
I have already small terminal without hard drive (no SATA/PATA, one drive on USB) which works fine.
I don't want to buy big server, or to use regular computer for that. It's not cheap.
I thought about a small case (ITX?), and cheap computer in this with SATA ports, but I cannot find anything interesting :(
I thought about NAS in network and server independently and booting server from NAS, I'm not sure which technologies will be good for that, and I don't know what with performance.
Direct connection to NAS through network from workstation is next pro for that.
What do you think about DAS? It will be good for that?