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Simple, little, cheap NAS

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ArturMaly

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Hi guys.

I need to build myself simple NAS for my project files.
I want to make something like 2x2TB or 2x1TB.

I would use files directly from 1 disc, and in night I want to synchronize them.

But im n00b in nas and I want to ask if such configuration would be good:
- Asrock AD425PV3 with Atom D425
- 2GB of RAM
- And for chassic something like: Tacens Ixion
- OS - FreeNAS
 
For about the same price/power usage you can get the ASRock E350 AMD Zacate board. I use it in my little NAS, runs great.

edit: the zacate is faster!
 
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Any reason why a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 (x86) or similar wouldn't do?
//Danne
 
In my country AD425PV3 is ~75$ and Asrock E350M1 is ~118$ so i propably chose cheaper board.
as for ReadyNAS Ultra 2 is ~313$ and my setup cost only ~147$.

Anyone have made something on D425 atom??

s0rce can you tell me something more about your NAS?
 
The hardware you proposed will work fine for a two disk setup. But instead of synchronization on a schedule, I would put the disks into a RAID1 configuration in FreeNAS, that way they are consistent with one another at all times.
 
I was also thinking about RAID but if I by accident delete or save file there is no return to previous vesion of that file.
 
ArturMaly said:
I was also thinking about RAID but if I by accident delete or save file there is no return to previous vesion of that file.
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But even then...you only get 24 hours. Very rarely have my issues been found in < 24 hours.
 
ArturMaly said:
I was also thinking about RAID but if I by accident delete or save file there is no return to previous vesion of that file.
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Thats what snapshots are for. Just use ZFS and store periodic snap shots.

I keep daily and weekly snapshots.
 
diizzy said:
Any reason why a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 (x86) or similar wouldn't do?
//Danne
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because they are slow. the home made atom / zacate systems running real OS can run at almost full speed file transfer. Where those NAS appliances, typically only get around 35 meg/second transfer unless you spend over $1,000.

freeNAS is also very slow. you'll be better off with solaris napp-it, or windows home server.
 
The old Sparc versions of the ReadyNas's are slow (NV/NV+) the x86 versions are not.
 
The HP proliant microserver is cheaper than the readyNAS and more powerful. If you just want 2HDD just only put in 2 drives.

edit: its still cheaper to build youself, just grab a zacate/atom board, 8gigs of ram, a half decent case and your set.
 
Cheaper but not easier to use. NAS's are appliances that have limited functionality and what they do, they do well. The HP is a full blown PC.
 
I made it, and there are my transfers throught iSCSI:
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I Buy:
- Asrock AD425PV3 with Atom D425
- 2 GB of RAM
- Chasic: Tacens IXION
- My old 1TB Samsung and Segate 1TB [i dont remember model name now]
- Gigabit switch
 
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