Home NAS?

Well I defiantly have an old machine I could be putting a NAS on. I was looking at FreeNAS earlier. I just like the idea of the small form factor with a RAID. Stick it anywhere there is a network connection and I'm good to go. I've set up the Buffalo's and I know you can hack them to put NIX on it. But really I'm not that bored. haha!

I just commandeered my old bosses Mac Mini at work at I am in LOVE. I hate gushing about Apple products.

It's like meeting that cute uppity b*tch at the gym that you so don't want to get involved with, but just can't help yourself.

Megadeth4168

dynamik wrote: »

Check out FreeNAS or Open Filer if you have an old machine laying around.

+1 for Open Filer

I use and and love it

skeet2331

HeroPsycho wrote: »

Windows Home Server, and loving it.

+1 I can stream to my xbox and remote into every computer from work. Works great.

tiersten

I just use plain RHEL.

RTmarc

HeroPsycho wrote: »

Windows Home Server, and loving it.

Has Microsoft yanked this or something? Every page they had up on it is no longer valid.

pwjohnston

tiersten wrote: »

I just use plain RHEL.

Software's not the issue here. I'm looking for hardware that is small form factor and can handle at least a raid 1 mirror. If I can straight install linux on it I probably will. However I'm assuming that whatever OS runs on the boxes isn't going to have enough storage space in their ram to hold a bigger os. And I don't want to put any new OS on the data drives.

marco71

I use gnu/linux with mdadm and I think software is a major issue since hardware goes cheaper and cheaper and you can find inexpensive sata drives for, let's say, a raid5 array...
btw, anyone heard about DRBD (http://www.drbd.org) or is using it as a raid1 over tcp/ip ?

Kasor

I'm thinking to setup one at my home..., too. Thanks for the info

Nobylspoon

RTmarc wrote: »

Has Microsoft yanked this or something? Every page they had up on it is no longer valid.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx

Works fine for me.

RTmarc

Hmmm. That very link was not working yesterday. It kept coming up in the search but kept coming back showing a "cannot find this page" error message. Glad it works now.

Nobylspoon

RTmarc wrote: »

Hmmm. That very link was not working yesterday. It kept coming up in the search but kept coming back showing a "cannot find this page" error message. Glad it works now.

I run into that problem alot on their site.

vanquish23

Nobylspoon wrote: »

I run into that problem alot on their site.

Thats what they get for using there own software!