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Harry Putnam wrote: |
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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, wodld be welcome. |
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I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running |
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Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. |
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I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm |
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over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked back. Gentoo is still my |
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main OS but I think you just can't beat ZFS for a filer. |
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Just check it out and see what you think. |
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Matt Harrison |
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