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building NAS server, any suggestions?
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:03 am
by bigtiger
I am planning to build a NAS server for home use. Any suggestions?
I plan to buy a used desktop and then put about at least two hard drives. Anybody knows a good used desktop, like which model? I know I would definately avoid compaq.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:44 am
by DIGITALgimpus
Anything pretty much works. Better quality hardware the better off you are.
I have a Beige Apple G3 (from 98) that has been a file server since 2002 without incident. Solid as a rock, though eventually due to retire, thanks to a 266MHz processor.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 6:49 am
by bigtiger
Do you use a special software? Or any normal server software like RedHat? Thanks.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:11 am
by carbon_unit
If you don't need a lot of features this will run on some obsolete hardware.
http://www.serverelements.com/
The plain NASLite is free.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:18 am
by bigtiger
Thanks, I just bookmarked this site. Very cool software. Will do further research while I look for an obsolute hardwares.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:05 am
by DIGITALgimpus
I've just been using OS X Client.... any UNIX os is more than fine. Samba, Apache, PureFTPD, LukeFTP or whatever you prefer is just fine.
I've got MRTG graphs of network traffic, file storage, even had VPN going for a while (though problems due to age of hardware forced me to turn it off).