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NAS Enclosures
- Thread starter nephilim
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i have never done it but building a very cheap PC with the amount of HD space you are looking for and using a program like freenas may be the way to go.
my next big project is to build a freenas box myself if you read the installation instructions it looks extremely simple, only downside is your storage drive has to be formated in UFS it can do NTFS but is read only.
http://www.freenas.org/
my next big project is to build a freenas box myself if you read the installation instructions it looks extremely simple, only downside is your storage drive has to be formated in UFS it can do NTFS but is read only.
http://www.freenas.org/
Not only is it simple, it's REALLY simple.
I had an old celeron 1.1 sitting around and I tossed a few drives in it just as a test. I think that from start of download to fully installed (even burning the CD) was something like 12mins... it's really that fast.
FreeNAS is a very stripped version of FreeBSD so you will occasionally find hardware compatibility problems. There is a FreeBSD comaptibility list somewhere so make sure to check that out. The good thing, though, is that you aren't looking at needing drivers for sound, video, etc.
FreeNAS is initially burned to a CD and then run. You can install it to the HD, USB key, or a CF card (I think floppy is in there, but who uses one of those?). It'll boot to a DOS-like menu that you do all the beginning configuration. Once installed to the HDD and it runs, turn off the monitor and let it sit in a closet. All further interaction with the NAS (including reboot!) is done via a slick web-based interface. Read up on the instructions about to add a drive, format, then mount the partition.
There are a myriad of communication methods but the easiest to configure is CIFS which will give windows the ability to read the file. There are other types but I've yet to use them.
Things to note:
- As mentioned, it can't write to NTFS; reading NTFS can be spotty. This isn't really a problem, though, as the drive is mapped through windows. If the mobo fails, install the drives in another system with FreeNAS and booyah.
- The system can't do JBOD yet, though this is planned. It will do software RAID levels, 0, 1, and 5 (I think). I can't comment as to the reliability of these software RAID solutions.
- edit: I haven't played with it much, but the power saving features seem a little less than robust. Granted, you probably don't want a lot of power saving features on a NAS box, but you never know.
Take a quick read through the instructions before install and you're good to go. No real need to spend the cash for an actual NAS system when you can probably get someone to give you a computer that'll work as a small file server using this system.
I had an old celeron 1.1 sitting around and I tossed a few drives in it just as a test. I think that from start of download to fully installed (even burning the CD) was something like 12mins... it's really that fast.
FreeNAS is a very stripped version of FreeBSD so you will occasionally find hardware compatibility problems. There is a FreeBSD comaptibility list somewhere so make sure to check that out. The good thing, though, is that you aren't looking at needing drivers for sound, video, etc.
FreeNAS is initially burned to a CD and then run. You can install it to the HD, USB key, or a CF card (I think floppy is in there, but who uses one of those?). It'll boot to a DOS-like menu that you do all the beginning configuration. Once installed to the HDD and it runs, turn off the monitor and let it sit in a closet. All further interaction with the NAS (including reboot!) is done via a slick web-based interface. Read up on the instructions about to add a drive, format, then mount the partition.
There are a myriad of communication methods but the easiest to configure is CIFS which will give windows the ability to read the file. There are other types but I've yet to use them.
Things to note:
- As mentioned, it can't write to NTFS; reading NTFS can be spotty. This isn't really a problem, though, as the drive is mapped through windows. If the mobo fails, install the drives in another system with FreeNAS and booyah.
- The system can't do JBOD yet, though this is planned. It will do software RAID levels, 0, 1, and 5 (I think). I can't comment as to the reliability of these software RAID solutions.
- edit: I haven't played with it much, but the power saving features seem a little less than robust. Granted, you probably don't want a lot of power saving features on a NAS box, but you never know.
Take a quick read through the instructions before install and you're good to go. No real need to spend the cash for an actual NAS system when you can probably get someone to give you a computer that'll work as a small file server using this system.
I think that there are programs that can be run from the NAS box itself, but nothing that will involve a GUI and nothing that isn't related directly to the operation of the NAS.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is just that. You're basically turning a low power computer into a spot on the network that every computer can see and use for storage. So while you can see it as a file server, server in this case is a little too strong of a term. It's use is strictly (as far as I've seen) to act as as storage point.
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is just that. You're basically turning a low power computer into a spot on the network that every computer can see and use for storage. So while you can see it as a file server, server in this case is a little too strong of a term. It's use is strictly (as far as I've seen) to act as as storage point.
The ReadyNAS boxes from http://www.infrant.com/ look to be nice appliances, but you're looking at a $600 buy-in for the chassis.