Finally, I got a chance to work on my NAS build, since I’ve been on vacation for all of last week. The goal I was shooting for was to build at least 4TB of RAID 5 storage, with at least a gigabit network connection. Since I already have a 2 TB IDE-based NAS built on a Poweredge 2400 platform, and since I have a bunch of PE 2400 sitting around, I decided to go ahead and build another NAS out of one of them.
The Poweredge 2400 has several nice features (more…)
I’ve decided to build my new NAS on one of my PowerEdge 2400 boxes I have sitting here. I’ve got a Dual PIII 866 with 2Gb ram, GigE, and room for 6 hard drives in the cage, and up to 3 5 1/4 devices (I will leave the SCSI CD-Rom, and add at least 1 IDE DVD Burner). To this I will add at least 1 4 port SATA 300 RAID controller and 4 1.5TB Seagate drives. I plan on configuring the RAID to RAID 5. The debate now is FreeNAS vs. NASLite vs. OpenFiler. I’m currently leaning towards FreeNAS. What is your favorite?
I’ve got a few projects that I’ve had on the back burner for awhile, so in an effort to get things done AND generate some content, I’ve decided to make them articles for Phil’s Comments. Here is the list of planned projects for Q2:
Since I have 3 racks of equipment in my office (not all of which is running), I will be paying particular attention to heat and power usage statistics. Tune in for further updates.
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