From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LT2Me-0003Cb-48 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:01:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7C54E0558; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F779E0558 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:00:29 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,353,1231113600"; d="scan'208";a="69052224" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2009 23:00:28 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B365C137BA6 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:00:24 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <49E33303-F36B-490F-AFEA-E42962D1E318@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:00:22 +0000 References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Archives-Salt: a2380bca-b882-43a3-a114-025cc19da9ce X-Archives-Hash: 1488bc9c8f2743275c83ca482d8e9d34 On 30 Jan 2009, at 00:06, Harry Putnam wrote: > ... > A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been > around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Power consumption, too. I think some of the off-the-shelf mini-NAS use a low-power MIPS processor. I like a "real Linux" server rather than an off-the-shelf mini-NAS because you can do so much more with it. I rip DVDs & download torrents on the headless server, as this saves me having to leave my workstation on overnight. Unfortunately "all the other stuff" is a considerable reason I had to rule out Solaris, which I would like to have used for its ZFS file- system. I felt I probably wouldn't like the package manager, and I didn't seem to be able to find supported hot-swap controllers. There's just loads of stuff I know I'm more easily going to be able to find help with on Linux. But mini-NAS does really well for many people. I found the problem with going it myself to be feature creep - I want room for plenty of drives and once you've got a server running 24/7 there's always something else you can "usefully" run on there. I ended up buying one of these and a 3ware 9500 RAID controller - this has turned out pretty expensive but I think worth it to me, as it should last me a long time. I am just about to build. 3ware's customer support, BTW, is second-to-none - if buying one of their controllers on eBay ask the vendor to check the serial, as many are still under 3ware's no-quibble 3-year warranty. My experience with their tech support has been excellent, and will make them first choice for hardware in the future. Stroller.