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I recently returned to college and decided to study MIS. The school (Auburn University of Montgomery) is one of few to offer a data storage option in their MIS program. It sounded pretty lucrative so I figured what the hey. Well, I haven't begun the actual computer related coursework - still working on core business classes - but I figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and familiarize myself with some standard equipment so I decided to build a nas box.
Its a duron 900mhz with 256mb pc100 and 2 30gb drives. Its currently running freenas. I cut the chassis out of a cardboard box. I'm afraid if I leave it on too long I might start a fire.
The above system is a joke - albeit a functional one.
I'd like to build a box that I can experiment with. I have a biostar board with 1.8ghz duron and 512 ram. What I'm wondering is should I get a pci to sata adapter for it so I can put some sata drives in it or should I just wait and get a board with sata ports? I basically want to build a small home server that I can explore doing things like backing up data, file serving, you know the typical stuff. I'll probably use freenas and server 2003 maybe ubuntu server.
I'd like to use this board so I guess my main question is are the pci sata cards good to use/compatible with linux based stuff? I don't want to buy IDE drives as the are fast approaching extinction and I'd like the drive to be compatible with any new system I might build.
Also any advice on thing to experiment with to familiarize my self with some data storage type concepts would be appreciated....
Its a duron 900mhz with 256mb pc100 and 2 30gb drives. Its currently running freenas. I cut the chassis out of a cardboard box. I'm afraid if I leave it on too long I might start a fire.
The above system is a joke - albeit a functional one.
I'd like to build a box that I can experiment with. I have a biostar board with 1.8ghz duron and 512 ram. What I'm wondering is should I get a pci to sata adapter for it so I can put some sata drives in it or should I just wait and get a board with sata ports? I basically want to build a small home server that I can explore doing things like backing up data, file serving, you know the typical stuff. I'll probably use freenas and server 2003 maybe ubuntu server.
I'd like to use this board so I guess my main question is are the pci sata cards good to use/compatible with linux based stuff? I don't want to buy IDE drives as the are fast approaching extinction and I'd like the drive to be compatible with any new system I might build.
Also any advice on thing to experiment with to familiarize my self with some data storage type concepts would be appreciated....