A fascinating thread over at Overclock.Net showing the thread starter modifying a Cooler Master690 case to potentially house 22 drives for an Unraid server. The writer mounts the motherboard in a pretty unique way on the back-plane of the case. Look about half way down this page to see the motherboard mounted.…
Read more »FreeNAS, OpenFiler or Ubuntu Server
Another of the type of posts I like to read - this time over at "The Diary of an IT Man". In the post, Nicolas Roussi discusses building a server and player for media files in his home and talks about the hardware and software choices. Although starting out with FreeNAS, he eventually settled on Ubuntu server with ZFS as the file system:
Read more »So I saw that ZFS is natively supported in Ubuntu.
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Guide to Setting Up and Using Desktop Ubuntu as a NAS
Lifehacker has a nice new post giving detailed instructions how to use an old computer as a NAS with Ubuntu linux.
The goal of the project is described:
Read more »Here, we'll show you how to put together an Ubuntu-based server, connect it to the other computers in your home, and then go through a few examples of how you can use it as a backup machine, a media server for your music, movies and TV shows, and as a dedicated BitTorrent box.
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Building a Cheap and Green NAS (for backup)
I came across a nice little post that is in one of my favorite categories - a post about building a NAS device for backup from scratch using parts. The writer intends this post to be the start of a series in which he will also examine several NAS software options:
Read more »We are going to try to build a redundant server which cost less than $500 (at least that’s what the Drobo costs without hard drives) in parts and consume less than 55 watts.
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