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
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