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I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas |
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storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here |
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since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built |
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your own. |
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After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high |
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end pricetags and even the midranges for a factory made setup. |
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Makes me wonder what if anything I'd be missing, functionality wise, |
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if I were to build it up myself. |
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I see these storebought things are mostly running a small embedded |
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linux os. |
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The lowend stuff like WD `mybook 1tb world Edition II' advertises |
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gigabit throughput but I see many reviews that report way less in |
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practice. In fact it started to look like that particular one is way |
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below its advertised capability. I ran across many complaints about |
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dreadfully low write speads. Also apparently has some sorry thing |
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called Mionet for (secure) remote access. |
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I'm thinking of doing something like a semi-minimal regular (not |
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embedded) install on a P4 I have with asus P4C800 mobo and some 2 gigs |
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ram. Maybe add an extra sata controller (the mobo has one) so I can |
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put up to 6 or so sata disks on it along with one small IDE disk for |
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the OS (just to head of any problems related to installing on sata) |
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Maybe start with 2 500 sata disks and build up as I need it. Or more |
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likely `if I need it'... I kind of doubt I'd need more than 4 anytime |
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soon so maybe wait on the controller part too. |
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I guess I'd connect to it mostly thru samba/cifs for windows XP |
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machines that have lots of biggish graphics and video type stuff to |
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backup/store. And nfs for my main gentoo desktop. |
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I wondered what the downsides are compared to a medium range |
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storebought rig? |
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A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been |
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around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. |
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Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, |
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or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance |
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considerations.. or whatever, would be welcome. |