I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so wouldn't be of any use.
My main PC has 8 SATA ports and will become the file server when done, again the motherboard is out of date. You should have too much trouble tracking down a new Gigabyte motherboard with 8 SATA ports on it, but four should be enough - I have 4.4TB of capacity (configured as 2.2 + 2.2 with daily rysnc between them). Oh, and you misspelt pr0n. ;-) Speaking of pr0n, here's some really nice pics of my home built NAS cabinet. Hard drives tend to vibrate, and get warm when near one another so I got a bit creative: old drawer + elastic shock cord + 2 coat hangers + L shaped aluminium cut to size and drilled: http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack2.jpg cables: http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack7.jpg next to the beast powering it: http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack8.jpg On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Sonia Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that takes more > than 2 large disks, does RAID5, does NFS and CIFS. (I've seen a few devices > for home, but they were limited to 2 disks). > > I'm wondering if buying such a NAS device would be more expensive than > buying a barebones mobo/cpu + case and putting Linux on. If so, any > recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of SATA drives (eg 6 or > 8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that requires Windoze to support > said large number of drives? > > Thanks, Sonia, > who has much p0rn to store (martial arts videos) > :-) > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
