[LUNI] was: 8TB of external storage

[Erik Hanson]

I use an old POS e-machines desktop box with an AMD Sempron, 512M RAM,
and a $100 Adaptec RAID card.
Runs Ubuntu Server and Samba. It's a cinch to set up.

But if you're looking for distros that do all the heavy lifting for you:
http://freenas.org/
http://www.openfiler.com/
http://www.gluster.org/
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
http://www.nexentastor.org/ (community edition is free up to 18TB)

They all have wizbang web interfaces. OpenFiler didn't like my
hardware; FreeNAS did, but I didn't enjoy looking at the web
interface. I haven't tried any of the others.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
> Hi Luni, Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!
> I watched this thread with great interest as I need a new file server. Its
> for my home, to which I connect a few Win 7 boxes and a couple of ubuntus.
> I'd like to build a simple, management-less NAS like a Drobo, but I don't
> want to pay for a Drobo, they seem kinda expensive.
> I like the idea of these small machines like a DNS-321 (or drobo) but I read
> they don't have great performance.  Not sure about an Atom based box.
> I guess I'm just looking for any lessens learned, or advice offered on what
> I should look for in terms of both hardware and software.  Keeping in mind I
> just want it to run like an appliance.
> Thanks
> Jay
>
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