I've had good experience with FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/), but on a box with homogenous disks/controllers. YMMV, but it's definitely worth checking out.
Rony On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, David Suna <da...@davidsconsultants.com>wrote: > I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just > collecting dust. I would like to collect the disks from all of them, put > them together into a single server to act as a file server / NAS on our > home network. There would probably be a combination of IDE and SATA > drives. What would you recommend as the best way to achieve this (with > minimal cash outlay). The home network is a mixed Windows and Linux > environment so I assume I would run Linux on the new server and provide > access to the disks via SAMBA. For now the main function of the server > would be to serve as a place to do backups. I have never done anything > with RAID so I don't know if that is something that I should take into > consideration (especially as the disks are of varying sizes). > > Any information, suggestions or pointers would be appreciated. I am > viewing this as a learning experience (in addition to making use of old > hardware for a positive purpose). > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > David sunada...@davidsconsultants.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Ubi dubium, ibi libertas (where there is doubt, there is freedom)
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