Recent content by MichaelB

I installed samba and webmin but it can be tricky inside webmin to do all the perms and mount points. The easy way... Unless you did a FULL install from dvd you should add a couple programs to the box. on debian install proftpd - @ command line enter: apt-get install proftpd you...

BJamm I have the same case with a WD 80G for Debian Testing and 4 500 Seagate sata's in some nice lcd hotswap trays. I have been also using debian for about 3yrs now. I downloaded the NETINSTALL of stable ver 3.1 and did a very bare bones install Once up and converted the OS to...

Im wondering at this point that since you can get a 500G disk for $135ish that mirroring the data .vs raid isnt much of a trade off when you can gain speed and also leave the raid s/w and proprietary issues behind. Perhaps Ill just setup linux clean and simple with 2 disks Rscyn'd at...

Hello All I was disappointed in the data speed when I installed FreeNAS on a P4 box with 4 sata drives in a raid5 . The box is a P4 2.4G with 512MB Ram and 4 new seagate sata drives. I setup freenas to use raid5 and started my test. I have 4.7GB of MP3s 32 files at around 115GB each...