-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet.
Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical
considerations? Have any of you done this, or know anyone who has?
Maxtor's MaxAttach NAS 3000 products were exactly this - FreeBSD on a PC motherboard in a rack mounted case with a web interface to manage
them. The rumor was that Microsoft got so upset about it that they went to
Maxtor and gave them a free license to use Windows as an embedded OS
for their MaxAttach NAS 4100.
That's something :-) I only built a separate FreeBSD file-server because I have to run Windows on my PC and I can't trust M$ software with 700Gb+ of data. However, some people store many terabytes with Windows Storage Server - and look what happened in UK a few weeks ago :-)
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