Network Attached Storage News, Reviews, and Information
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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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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There is a new guide on how to install and configure SnapRAID on Ubuntu Server. Snapraid is a snapshot RAID opensource project that provides the following features:
Read more »Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, the other features of SnapRAID are:
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- You can start using SnapRAID with already filled disks.
- The disks of the array can have different sizes.
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