Re: [PLUG] home-rolled storage suggestions

[jimjawn <jimjawn@gmail.com>]

I recently purchased an old snap server (dell power vault 705n) and installed 4 300GB drives.  The snap server was $125 and each of the drives were $100 so the total cost for a 1.2TB nas was $600 dollars.  I puchased the 4100 becuase it was a 1U form factor and pretty quiet.  I didn't realize that there wasn't a workaround for LBA 48bit addressing with the 4100 though so I ended up with only ~500GB, but I'm okay with that for now.

In any event, there's a ton of hacks and work arounds.  Check out http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/index.php and peruse.  Its a pretty good way to create a cheap SAN.

On 7/28/06, sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:

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


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