Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
Hey hey. Alex Samad wrote: I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply Have you considered picking up a NAS appliance instead of trying to build up a PC? I've just added a D-Link DNS-323 to my network, which apart from only housing two drives meets most of your requirements. It's much smaller and more attractive than a PC case, and the only time I hear it is when it spins up the drives from idle. There are four drive boxes around, and the vast majority of them run Linux under the hood and are moderately easy to hack around with. The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). If you do end up building your own, who says you need to connect any of the LEDs? :-P -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:11:42PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: Hey hey. Alex Samad wrote: I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply Have you considered picking up a NAS appliance instead of trying to build up a PC? I've just added a D-Link DNS-323 to my network, which apart from only housing two drives meets most of your requirements. It's much smaller and more attractive than a PC case, and the only time I hear it is when it spins up the drives from idle. I need space for 4 drives, my current server have space for 2 and 3 respectively I was thinking of using my asus 500Gp with openwrt on it but I would like to have a Gig eth port There are four drive boxes around, and the vast majority of them run Linux under the hood and are moderately easy to hack around with. Yeah I thought I could build one cheaper but maybe not The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). If you do end up building your own, who says you need to connect any of the LEDs? :-P true -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try. - George W. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used drugs, marijuana, cocaine signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 09:08:10AM +0800, jam wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008 08:38:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). I have been looking at fuildtek (http://fluidtek.com.au/) they have thermaltake rs wing case's, thinking of a cheap E2180 (down the page a bit), I don't need much grunt, all it will be doing it running nfs any thoughts ? Yes, you are deluded :-) 6 disks are NOISY no matter what. I use an ELX mini ITX box with a single WD 750G drive. Dead quiet and nice. The Antec NSK 1380 is just about in-audible at 1 meter and can take 2 disks if you fiddle and a uATX motherboard. (I use an AMD BE2300) which has grunt but is silent and cool (sustained about 35W for the whole system, Gigabyte + 2G +160G, - on the meter per 24 hours. The single police-strobe-blue is unpluggable, whereupon the box is dark. I currently have a shuttle SN25P, with 3 drives (2x1T + 1x500g), I can't really hear it, except when the cdrom drive is going or the ambient temp is high James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon. - George W. Bush 06/18/2003 Washington, DC signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
Hi I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). I have been looking at fuildtek (http://fluidtek.com.au/) they have thermaltake rs wing case's, thinking of a cheap E2180 (down the page a bit), I don't need much grunt, all it will be doing it running nfs any thoughts ? Alex its sort of OT, but I am guessing most people on the list have gone / are going through this -- There's been a act of war declared upon America by terrorists, and we will respond accordingly. - George W. Bush 09/15/2001 Camp David signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 20:14 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). I have been looking at fuildtek (http://fluidtek.com.au/) they have thermaltake rs wing case's, thinking of a cheap E2180 (down the page a bit), I don't need much grunt, all it will be doing it running nfs any thoughts ? Alex its sort of OT, but I am guessing most people on the list have gone / are going through this I'm going through exactly this process right now.. where silence is really important.. at this point the case of choice is an Antec P182, based on reviews. I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts too. They aren't the cheapest. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:57 AM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going through exactly this process right now.. where silence is really important.. at this point the case of choice is an Antec P182, based on reviews. I'm interested to hear other people's thoughts too. They aren't the cheapest. I have absolutely no practical experience in this area, but from what I understood from overhearing conversations in that area I'd look at fanless boxes first. They might also be less power hungry. Googling for fanless linux box seems to turn up relevant links. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] fileserver suggestions
On Thursday 29 May 2008 08:38:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a 400-500w power supply The other requirement is has to be very quiet ( and no lights on the case). I have been looking at fuildtek (http://fluidtek.com.au/) they have thermaltake rs wing case's, thinking of a cheap E2180 (down the page a bit), I don't need much grunt, all it will be doing it running nfs any thoughts ? Yes, you are deluded :-) 6 disks are NOISY no matter what. I use an ELX mini ITX box with a single WD 750G drive. Dead quiet and nice. The Antec NSK 1380 is just about in-audible at 1 meter and can take 2 disks if you fiddle and a uATX motherboard. (I use an AMD BE2300) which has grunt but is silent and cool (sustained about 35W for the whole system, Gigabyte + 2G +160G, - on the meter per 24 hours. The single police-strobe-blue is unpluggable, whereupon the box is dark. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
