nas central weblog

linuxdevices.com features an article about the ongoing things regarding the Marvell Orion Linux kernel port. It gives some good information about who is involved.

Read more here.

smallnetbuilder.com definitely provides the best NAS reviews, especially because the reviewer (mostly the well known Jim Buzbee) always takes a glance at the mainboard and tries to get shell access. Always checkout the “Under the covers” page to gather some hardware information.

Take a look at the recent reviews at smallnetbuilder.com.

• Buffalo Linkstation EX aka LS-LGL
  
• Zyxel NSA-220
• QNAP TS-409
• Buffalo Linkstation Pro DUO
• Promise SmartStor
• HP MediaSmart Server EX470/EX475 (Windows based)
• QNAP TS-209 Pro
• Synology Disk Station DS107 series

After moving the buffalo forums to the new place it was time to make the wiki authentication independent from the buffalo forums.

Therefore a new forum at

• http://forums.nas-central.org/

was created. Notice that forumsections for HP, Iomega, Lacie, Netgear and Zyxel were created as these vendors do not have any user driven forums for their boxes. I added one for Linksys so EFG250/NAS200 owners have a place for discussion as well.

The main reasons for creating this forums are:

• Hardware mods (serial/jtag/…) can be investigated & discussed in the hardware sections
• In the kernel development section it can be discussed how to create support for SoC X/Board design Y in the vanilla kernel independent from the special hardware. Many boxes share the same SoC (Marvell orion, Storlink gemini)

Read the announcement here.