Recommendations for a Hackable NAS

[Agashka]

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 I've read some informations on NAS-Central, but the wiki seems to be a bit out of date...


edit:
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...

 

[450]

Have you considered building your own?

Do you have a specific budget?

 

[450]

(Double post, delete)

 

[Agashka]

I've narrowed down to this one so far:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&cm_re=linkstation_pro-_-22-165-269-_-Product
Linkstation Pro, 2TB internal, which is allright with me. It looks like it can run debian which is great, and have a nice forum for support over here:
http://forum.buffalo.nas-central.org/viewforum.php?f=39

anyone has other suggestions?

edit:
I'm also considering the Kurobox with Sylver Image:
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Installing_Sylver's_Image_on_a_new_Kuro

 

[golemcito]

You can try this

 

[Agashka]

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.

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

 

[ChrisBenn]

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.

 

[Vengance_01]

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.