Recommendations for a Hackable NAS

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Agashka

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Hi, I'm sure this has been asked a lot of time, but I feel for asking once again since I'm unable to find a product that fits my criteria.
I'm looking for a NAS, I'm not too picky, but I want something with at least 1-2 internal hard drive bays. I'm looking for something hackable or mostly 'open' as I would like to also run apache/php and other softwares on it. I'm a programmer and it would be great if I could get some of my own code running on this as well. I've read some informations on NAS-Central, but the wiki seems to be a bit out of date...


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Willing to pay $200-400 if it fits 3-4 drives. $200-300 if it fits 2 drives, and under $200 if it only has 1 bay...
I'm not looking to do it myself, I hate the trouble...
 
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Have you considered building your own?

Do you have a specific budget?
 
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I love the eTrays. Very simple, yet powerful. But I can see it's closed source... Since it comes with php/MySQL I will consider it as well.

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D-Link DNS-323 with 'fun_plug' (http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:ffp) seems to be the best one so far.
 
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HP Proliant Microsver

~300 bucks, 4 Hotswap bays, 1 5.25 bay (optical, another HD, 4in1 2.5, your choice. Figure 340 with a little more memory.

Run a free solaris/linux OS on there and you have your NAS + whatever else you want to do with it. It's going to be much more "hackable" than any canned nas out there.
 
I second Chris's recommendation. Great little device. I run NexentaStor and it works great. Not a single issue. Or you could go the FreeBSD route for something that more then just a storage appliance and use ZFS still.
 
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