I have recently acquired some extra computers that were going to be binned from work & as a result I have some new equipment that will be used daily & some that will need to be repurposed or disposed of. Because of all the stuff moving around I thought it would be interesting to play around with stuff a bit & maybe consolidate/simplify things a bit in the process. One of the things I was thinking of was creating a NAS/SAN box.
I have a small form factor dell box (from VFXWeb.com) that was a dedicated Linux box, but was then going to be a WIndows XP box...but since I picked up a 2.8 Ghz box I will be making that into a Linux box with virtualized XP (about 80% convinced at this point). So now I was thinking, maybe this SFF box (700 Mhz Celeron I believe) would make a neat little NAS. I may also toss in a Gigabit NIC, but havent decided yet. What I am looking for is suggestions on a NAS software. I have been some research, bugging others, ect & have tentatively short-listed to the folowing: * FreeNAS * Openfiler * NASLite >From what I can tell they have very minimal requirements & may suit the purpose. If anyone has any other suggestions, let me know. Incidentally, I am currently running Server 2003, but will soom be adding a CentOS box that I want to sync with AD, etc. & the clients will be Win2K, WinXP, Linux, MacOS (9 to start & possible OS X). I will liley have a couple PDA's to throw in as well...LOL...just to complicate matters. I have 2 160 GB (IDE) disks and was going to try & RAID them in teh SFF box (if they fit), but optionally would have one disk in teh box & have an external USB drive for backup of teh main disk. So am I nuts.....on teh right track??? Comments, suggesstions...taunting geers! _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
