Sooo.....I thought I would update folks. I went for simplicity & purchased a DNS-323. Was on for 119 @ Best Buy & I had a $10 gift cert, so the price was right. Also bought two seagate green 2 TB drives that were on sale at MemEx. I figure a 2TB mirror should last for a little while...LOL
Now just need to find the time to mod the box a little bit to get it to do what I want & start transferring data. Then can start working on the other stuff. On 6/5/2011 10:30 AM, TekBudda wrote: > The functions you mentioned are essentially what I am looking to do. At > the core I am looking ofr a central point of storage that can be > accessed by Linux, Windows & Mac machines & hopefully Android & remote > usage. It is a mixtures of media files (some of which I would like to > stream/share), standard run of the mill documents, financial files, etc. > I am also looking to store deployment points on it as well as building > some sort of cloud type idea to share files with clients. I am planning > to run a server (CentOS with Server 2003 virtualized) with a variety of > services & such running on it performing various functions. Not married > to RAID but would be a nice bonus. > > My hardware options at this point are as follows: > * PC with OpenNAS or similar > * DNS-323 (Can get at a very good price) with > * > http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/western-digital-mybook-world-edition-1tb-3-5-external-hard-drive-wdh1nc10000n/10120326.aspx?path=aeca9e670d7c60b0e2d006b8f8d9a36aen02 > or similar > * > http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/western-digital-western-digital-my-book-live-2tb-external-hard-drive-wdbacg0020hch-nesn-wdbacg0020hch-nesn/10155407.aspx?path=7e22a249f8dcaa2eebf9bf9e377a4053en02 > or similar > * And possibly...Cody's suggestion. > > > On 6/4/2011 10:18 PM, Cody Swanson wrote: >> Yeah, there are some user space implementations of ZFS in Linux but I >> wouldn't bother. If you want to use ZFS you should run Solaris (open >> solaris, nexenta, solaris express etc) or FreeBSD which both have native >> support for ZFS. Nexenta offers a free version of their appliance OS if >> that's your thing, it works very well, I've tested it for work. If you >> are going to use ZFS I suggest a 64 bit processor and 2GB ram as a >> minimum which is pretty hefty I know but the advantages to ZFS are worth >> it in my opinion. My simple atom D510 server has both a 64bit processor >> and 2GB ram, all for $140. >> >> If you're looking to run a Linux based PC NAS appliance OpenFiler works >> very well. I personally prefer to roll my own as I find the appliance >> distros a little limited but I use my home server for a lot more than >> just NAS functions (web, DNS, asterisk, smb, nfs, mail, and day to day >> shell work). >> >> There are many ways to solve the home server problem these days which >> range from simple to complex. In the end it comes down to technical >> requirements and personal preference. I find myself constantly tweaking >> my home server, mostly for fun. The best way to learn is by doing! >> >> >> >> On 04/06/2011 4:03 PM, Mel Walters wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:02 -0600, Cody Swanson wrote: >>>> On 6/4/2011 12:05 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: >>>>> I would stay far far away from ZFS if you care about the data you are >>>>> storing. Best of luck to you if your data is on ZFS *when* something >>>>> bad happens (because it will, eventually) >>>> Care to elaborate? I've been using zfs both in production at work and at >>>> home for years without issue even after many hardware failures. >>> Is the perceived licence conflict between Linux GPL and ZFS still a >>> factor? >>> >>> Mel >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> clug-talk mailing list >>> clug-talk@clug.ca >>> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
