[ale] Home" Brew" Carbonite

[Jeff Hubbs]

Buffalo Terastation, etc. are crap.  Lame hardware aside, not being able 
to shell in and manipulate stuff is extremely limiting, and not being 
able to control the versions and types of protocols used (and therefore 
the quality thereof) is frustrating.  Last year, I got a guy at LaCie on 
the phone and he basically told me that they don't pay a lot of 
attention bug-fix-wise to their NFS implementation since so few people 
use it. 

I've been using a K7/850 with 2x300GB drives in RAID1 at home for a long 
time, but now that I'm expecting to do some videotape ripping I've 
decided to move that function to an AMDx2 machine with a pair of 1TB 
drives and a capture card...why push video files around the house LAN if 
I don't have to?

Greg Clifton wrote:
> Springboarding off the Pair of Twins Post, I have been thinking of 
> building a home brew storage server for several functions including 
> media storage and [automated?] backup over the internet of my family's 
> computers. Carbonite @ $50/yr might not be so bad but x8 or more 
> systems, surely I could build adequate if not superior functionality 
> for less than 2 yrs of service. Currently have two kids running Macs 
> the rest are running some flavor of Windows, XP, Vista/7 plus I run a 
> Ubuntu box as my home system.
>
> I noticed a recertified HP home server box on Newegg for  ~$320 with 
> 2x500GB drives (2 open bays, 4 total), Sempron1.8 processor and 512Meg 
> RAM and windblows home server. They sold out of the single hard drive 
> version for $259 or I probably would have already bought it. So the 
> question is, would it be 'more better' to take such a box and slam in 
> a couple of 1.5TB drives or the like and load some Linux distro with 
> necessary tools to be able to dump audio + video and [automated] 
> backups of all the family computers vs using something like a Buffalo 
> Terastation? Or does anybody have a better idea?
>
> Assuming the first option is viable, the next question is how to 
> configure such a box software-wise, I can handle the hardware, but 
> wouldn't know where to start with the software.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> Greg Clifton
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