Hacked together NAS in a box

hackaday.com 18 Dec '12, 10pm

Hacked together NAS in a box

I used to have a NS-K330. I used it primarily for torrent and sharing an el-cheapo printer. The external hard-drive I had attached to it was always getting moved around anyway, so I really didn’t care how slow it was over LAN. I agree that SnakeOS is total garbage, but It’s a good solution for light use at a really cheap price (30 bucks IIRC). FWIW, in my limited tests it was fast enough to stream 1080p video, but the torrents running in the background would get corrupted if you did that. LOL. I eventually ended up salvaging a core 2 duo and 4gb of ram from an old broken laptop and slapping that shit into a mini-ITX board I got on an open-box sale at Newegg for about 40 bucks (just 10 more than the NS-K330 itself). That’s what I would recommend to people looking to do something like this on the cheap. Not only do you get SATA, HDMI, a bajillion USB headers, etc., but as a ...

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