Coert Vonk

After 6 years to faithful service, the SMART daemon on my backup server was getting serious and it became time to retire it the server. Many new cheap network attached storage (NAS) boxes had become available, using only a fraction of the space and electricity. I ended up buying a D-Link DNS-321 for $90 and a Samsung 1.5 TByte hard disk for $100. Over time, I will add another hard disk, so that daily backups can alternate between the two disks. This will give me twice the snapshots for the same reliability as RAID1, without the hassle of rebuilding. The D-Link DNS-321 (or the near identical DNS-323, or CH3SNAS) is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that can hold up to two drives. It makes the drive available as SMB or NFS shares. It has a little ARM processor, 64 MByte of memory and a GigE interface. «read more»