Originally Posted by
PTravel
The two NASes that I have are not extremely old -- perhaps a couple of years -- and they're still sold. They're Linux devices and use Samba to make the arrays accessible by Windows machines. I suspect that's true of most external RAID devices.
Same here, Linux-based device sharing via Samba. But this one is... probably 2007-era? I know it's been replaced by a newer version, but I got a good deal on this one and figured it would do the job for a few years. And so far it has, except for that one rebuild.