Harry Putnam schrieb: > A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been > around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. > > Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, > or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance > considerations.. or whatever, would be welcome. > >
I am running my old AthlonXP system with 2 gig ram, a minimal installation on a small extra disk, 3 disks for data as raid 5 and some crypto, as a home nas. The system is build from spare parts except the data disks and a small sata controller, which i had to buy. The old miditower resides in a lumber-room under a shelf. So noise and space is no problem. Of course you could build such a system in a smaller case. The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something some people would miss. But i do not think a gentoo user would care. As maintainence i do ,beside the regular emerge --sync and updates, a raidcheck every weekend, but that can be cronjobed of course. One point i feel mentionable is scalability. You buy a home nas with two disks and you are stuck with that two disks because the case can not handle more than that. Your do-it-yourself nas can do that. It is a point of personal liking i think. I mean, you buy a home nas click 5 minutes in the gui an you are done. Selfmade nas needs understanding of the system, setting the whole thing up and some configfile changes every now and then. Regards Norman
