I must say after years of filling up old Compaq servers with SATA disks and
then having said servers die after 18 months, I just gave up and went and
bought a Dlink DNS-343 and put 4 x 1TB disks in it RAID 5.
It's great.
It's shuts down the arrray after xx mins of inactivity, uses very little
power and makes hardly any noise. It runs a 2.6 kernel, uses Linux software
RAID, it's quick and took less than 10 mins to set up. The filesystem is
ext3 and the box runs Samba. On start up, it looks for a script to run which
allows you do install extra software, ssh, ftp, telnet, apache, anything you
need (It is intended as a NAS though) so it's infinetely hackable if thats
what you want to do.
Since I turned off my DL380 filer server for the last time, my power bill
has gone down, my garage is quite and I have a neat solution I can grab in
case of a bush fire (we live close to bush in northern sydney).
Highly recommended.
Barrie
The manual for the Dlink DNS-323 dual-disc NAS shows the drives are ext2
or ext3 format (selectable). Therefore if I use RAID1 I will not only
have drive redundancy but each drive ought to work in a PC should the
box fail. Anyone tested this?
(of course a model 343 running RAID5 woould be very wizzy but I doubt
the drives data would be recoverable by a dunce if the box failed)
In respect of firmware, the devices are version 1.06 (better than
1.00??). A quick look through freenas didn't bring up any familiar
devices it would run on as firmware and I didn't really want an old PC
sucking up power all day to function as NAS.
Thanks,
Kevin.
.
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:05 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
* Kevin Shackleton <[email protected]> [2009-03-14 08:04:44 +0900]:
> Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive
> formats? Looking at a mirroring dual-drive device for reliability, but
> what happens if the box dies - are the drives ext2/vfat/proprietary?
> Are they all SMB/ftp or do some require Windows-only client software?
Kevin,
I asked a question on SLUG about this several months ago [1]. While not
directly relevant to your question about firmware, I got some good
replies, especially about a specialised NAS distro called
http://www.freenas.org/.
[1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/01/msg00037.html
Sonia
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