On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:29:22PM +1100, Barrie Hall wrote: > 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.
what sort of performance do you get from it ?
>
> 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
>
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