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This weekend I received my new NAS server, a Sarotech Wizplat NAS-20. After installing my two 1TB in it to build a RAID array, I soon noticed the following:

• my old (bricked) Giganas configuartion, which was still on the disks, was being read, but only partially working. I had to remove the partitions from the disk in my PC, install them back in the NAS before being able to configure them in the NAS
• The NAS is making less Noise than my Raidsonic Icy Box 4220
• The webinterface look and feel of the Icybox and the NAS-20 s very similar
• Out of the box the NAS-20 however has less functionality; no twonkey server, no DHCP server, no SSH-server – Of which I mostly disliked the lack of a UPnP media streaming service.

But, after spending some time googling, I found a very good piece of software called Fonz Fun-Plug (or FFP).

Following the instruction from this page, I had a working ffp with mediatomb up and running in no time.

I’m at the moment fine-tuning the configuration, but think I will soon be able to migrate all my media over to this NAS, and use it as my primary server.

Next topics on the wishlist (to be able to retire my old Linksys UnSlung-2) is a LDAP server.