Obscurity

Wednesday August 06, 2008

NAS for the home

Been working on a homemade NAS using the following components

- Via C3 Processor 800Mhz with 9W TDP

- Mercury Flex ATX motherboard

- 512Mb DDR RAM

- SATA Raid PCI Card

- Gigabit LAN NIC

- Compact Flash Card & IDE adapter

- 4 x 750Gb Samsung F1 HDDs

The result is a machine that uses 52W at idle and 60W at full tilt. The operating system consists of:

- Ubuntu LTS Server Edition 8.04

- Webmin 1.429

 The OS was setup such that the Swap is on a 1Gb partition on one of the drives. The remainder of the space is setup as XFS and managed by LVM.

 The result? A 2.75Tb machine geared for media serving and file storage.