[ale] Build-yer-own NAS server

[J. D. Pearson]

Heya Pete,

     You have my attention w/ the $300. Is this really possible? Do you 
mean just the price of the drives in a raid0 config?

1. Doesn't sound bonkers to me.
2. (no opinion here)
3. A redundant array such as raid5. Minimum 3 drives, capacity of two 
out of the three drives. May need a hardware controller for this.
4. Probably want a decent UPS. Software raid may be a cheaper option for 
you. IDE raid5 using the motherboard sucks if it forces you to
put one of the harddrives on the same cable as the cdrom (this screws 
performance WAY up)

hth,

J. D.

Pete Hardie wrote:

>All,
>
>With the flurry of cheap, high-capacity hard drives out there, I am
>beginning to think about
>moving my home machines towards using some form of NAS for the majority of the
>disk space, allowing me to upgrade the OS easily without having to
>worry about the upgrade clobbering my data, or even switch machines
>easily (wfie's Window PCs).
>
>Given that 1TB of space can be had for less than $300, I have a few
>questions for the collective:
>
>1) is this a bonkers idea in the first place?
>2) what should I look at w/r/t the NAS device proper (which distro,
>mobo issues, etc)?
>3) what type of RAID would be suitable for this?
>4) am I forgetting anything?
>
>TIA,
>
>Pete
>
>
>  
>

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