I came across a nice little post about building a NAS from scratch using an AMD E-350. The author decided to use Centos for the operating system:
In the beginning I was pondering whether to choose FreeNAS or CentOS. Both are probably good choices, but since I don’t consider ZFS as the holy grail of file systems and I’m a passionate Fedora user the final choice was the CentOS 6.2 minimal spin. One of the main arguments for CentOS compared to other Linux distributions was that it has a long life cycle and ships quite up-to-date packages, although GRUB2 and systemd are for example missing. The kernel is shipped in the version 2.6.32, which is IMHO a bit old, as it turned out it doesn’t support the CPU temperature sensors out of the box (see below).
Source: http://philipp.knechtges.com
I'm always interested in articles that describe putting together NAS devices from scratch. One of the most interesting bits is the description of the parts list:
- Asus E35M1-M with a passively cooled AMD E-350
- beQuiet Straight Power E9 with 400 Watts
- Samsung MZ-7PC in the 64 GB configuration
- 2x Western Digital WD20EARX with 2TB each
- 4 GB Corsair PC1333 RAM
- Xigmatek Midi Tower Asgard
Source: http://philipp.knechtges.com
Note that the author decided to use an SSD for the operating system drive, the Samsung MZ-7PC.
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