Oh yeah, I forgot about my server. I have a mini-ITX low power board with an embedded Celeron proc running my file server. It is running the free os FreeNAS. http://www.freenas.org This is based on OpenBSD Unix.
The server actually boots off of a 128MB USB stick, the entire FreeNAS OS is about 90MB or so. Upon bootup it loads completely into RAM, of which I have 1GB of it installed. Really I could have gone with 256MB, it's just that there was no price difference due to 1GB sticks being at the height of production, so I said, "why not get a gig". I have two 500GB internal hard drives set up doing RAID1 (mirroring). The server uses about 38 watts at full load give or take a watt or two. I leave it powered on all the time unless I know I'm going to be gone for a while. It is hardwired into a wireless router and I can access my music files over the wireless network anywhere on my property with a multitude of devices including my PS3. The total cost all hardware parts used in this setup was $281 plus my time invested. I was originally going to buy a prepackaged NAS at Fry's or another electronic store until I figured out I could do it cheaper myself and have more fun in the process. If I was to do it again today, I could probably do 1TB drives for the same price as they have declined in price quite a bit. Riv content: I own a Rivendell Custom acquired 2nd hand. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Bill M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Same here - two Rivs, no Mac for me. My wife has a Mac, but both kids > and I use Windoze. I hada server running Linux for a while, too. > > On Jan 13, 8:39 pm, All Rounder 2000 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Survey seems to indicate an inverse relationship. :) >> I was looking for a survey response to describe me: Multiple Rivs, >> Zero Macs. > > > -- having a blood clot is a sticky situation --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
