building a nas

[lsun22]

of course you can build a nas by loading windows on a computer and sharing the drives.

but does anyone know of any solutions that can be bootable off a cd/dvd or usb pen?

[uzor]

Depends on what you're looking for. There have been several other threads here in the past about the same thing. Here are a few ideas from them:

Something like this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=33-124-036&depa=0) plus some USB drives.

Something like this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822155309) that already has a drive build in (these come in varying sizes from smaller than this up to multi TB raids).

Several linux distros like this (http://www.openfiler.com/) (wait for 2.0 release), and this (http://linux.lorma.edu/main/) would do the trick also.

As far as booting from a CD/DVD or flash drive, look for a linux live cd with the features you want or get a mobo that can boot from USB and install your distro/os to that flash drive. Do some searching in this forum (nas or home nas, for example) and you will find more of what you are looking for. Good luck.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/1771.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=1771)

[djnes]

Clarkconnect was another good option, but I'm not sure it's being developed anymore.

[BoBo 007]

look at NasLite and FreeNAS
http://www.serverelements.com/
http://www.freenas.org/