sean finney on 28 Jul 2006 08:21:41 -0000 |
hey folks, i think it's high time i start investing in my own personal storage system, and would be interested to hear what others are doing. ideally, i'd like to piece something together that meets the following criteria: - small form factor and reasonably quiet (think: top shelf in my closet). - independant, not requiring a powered-on desktop system - gigabit ethernet and/or wireless connectivity, shared via smb etc - RAID functionality with monitoring - internally/externally expandable to >= 1 TB - i/o performance good enough to allow an rsync and a couple multimedia streams simultaneously or in other words, i guess i want to make a cheapo NAS. i saw some traffic a while about about the nslu2, which sounds fairly promising... combining it with something like the lego storage bricks from la cie might do what i want, though i worry about the performance with running a TB of RAID'd disk (4x500GB) over USB 2. has anyone used that with external storage, lvm, and raid? i know there's info in the official wiki about it but first hand experiences would be welcome. anyone have experience with something else, or ideas? thanks, sean Attachment:
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