There is no such thing or rather, no such device for a price that most of us will pay.
While the Apple NAS is worth noting you want more than that so we're back to either not made or something we have to configure or build ourselves.
--> But your note about backup is interesting. We've found the usual single external NAS to be far too unreliable (along with USB hard drives) to be considered backup. Maybe we'll give then a passing grade as a "spare copy" but these are not backup until you get 2 or 3 of them with each backing up the others.
Bob
Over the past few years I've been looking for a "set and forget" 1.5 - 2TB storage solution that I can plug into my home network, but for one reason or another I've still not found the right box. The kind of thing I've been looking for includes...
- Ethernet connection. I want to store this in a central comms cabinet and not have to move it around, connecting via USB to individual computers.
- Linux/Windows/Mac compatible. I've got Windows PCs, our Ubuntu server and am likely at some stage to get a Mac, so I'd like a box that plays nice with each of these OSs.
- Simple interface. I'd like something that I can configure once and it will back up automatically, without me having to remember to initiate it.
And my final wish, which would be nice, but unlike the other points, isn't absolutely essential, would be that it mirrors the system it's copying, so if one of them melts down, I can restore everything without having to reinstall the OS and configs for various software programs.
Does anything like this exist? The closest I've come to finding it is a Western Digital My Book World Edition backup HDD, which fits the main criteria except for the fact it doesn't support Linux. Hopefully that will change. In the meantime has anyone else come up with options?
Cheers
PS - I originally posted this on ubuntuforums, but didn't get any response, so have posted here.

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