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Storage / Re: NAS and OS/2?
« on: February 04, 2015, 04:55:23 pm »
Again speaking from my experience with D-Link NAS boxes. We have mostly used standard SATA 2TB disks in all our NAS boxes mainly because we got the boxes well before 'special' drives were made available. It is very much a case of you pay your money for the choice you make.
Regarding security, most of the 'off the shelf' boxes use ARM processors with the operating system being based on Linux and can be setup reasonably secure from the start. You do have to use common sense when setting them up but since they are usually behind a firewall there isn't much to worry about. Yes, some people use them to stream torrents which can leave the box open to outside access but then again everything else can, and should, be password protected. Password can be given to individual users or groups of users to limit exactly what they can access and what they can do with it (read only or read/write).
If the NAS box is onlt available on the local network you have the added security of the modem/router setup, as does the rest of the internal network. If you want the NAS to be available from the WAN then you need to take more care with how the modem/router is setup and exactly what services you open to the public.
In all the years that we have been using the NAS boxes we have not had one case of them being breached and that is not for the want of trying as our firewall logs show.
Regarding security, most of the 'off the shelf' boxes use ARM processors with the operating system being based on Linux and can be setup reasonably secure from the start. You do have to use common sense when setting them up but since they are usually behind a firewall there isn't much to worry about. Yes, some people use them to stream torrents which can leave the box open to outside access but then again everything else can, and should, be password protected. Password can be given to individual users or groups of users to limit exactly what they can access and what they can do with it (read only or read/write).
If the NAS box is onlt available on the local network you have the added security of the modem/router setup, as does the rest of the internal network. If you want the NAS to be available from the WAN then you need to take more care with how the modem/router is setup and exactly what services you open to the public.
In all the years that we have been using the NAS boxes we have not had one case of them being breached and that is not for the want of trying as our firewall logs show.