I built an Unraid NAS a few months ago and it's doing fine. I think the
free version is limited to three drives (two data and one parity drive).
The box is booting from the OS on a USB stick. I built a Freenas box
last year with a P3 motherboard but the throughput was way too slow for
the job. I put it down to the really really old chip set. Freenas has
a lot more options and gadgets than unraid but all I really needed was
storage on my network so I went with simple.
http://www.lime-technology.com/joomla/
http://www.freenas.org/
CW
Doug Franklin wrote:
Have any of the PDML faithful tried using Network Attached Storage
(NAS) for their photo archive? I'm considering putting together a 1TB
or so NAS box or device to live on my at-home 1GBps Ethernet LAN.
Right now, I'm keeping the archive on a set of external (eSATA and
USB) hard drives. I'm finding that it'd be convenient to keep a copy
online all of the time. I've been happy with the 4-drive RAID 10 in
my main machine, but I want to put the online archive on a separate
box of some sort. Any recommendations on gear to get or to avoid?
I'm thinking I'd do another 4-drive RAID 10 setup with 500 GB (or
maybe 1TB) drives commodity 7200 RPM SATA-II drives.
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