Recommendations sought - NAS box
Hi all,
I want to buy a NAS box for use on my home network - probably a 1Tb type with two disks, mirrored for security, etc. One question which most of the manufacturers' websites don't answer is this: will all NAS boxes serve files to a Linux box without any special drivers/software being needed? I use a fairly old RedHat distro (Guinness) which I'd rather not have to upgrade - I would have thought that I could mount any NAS box via NFS, straight off, but the websites don't confirm this. In fact, most of the websites give "Windows XP or later" as a system requirement! But I realise that's probably just referring to the special Windows configuration software etc.
What I want is a NAS box that I can simply plug into my network, manage via a web interface, and connect to from a Windows 98 laptop / Windows XP desktop / Linux desktop / any other devices I buy in the future. Any recommendations?
Thanks for any advice,
Chris.