JWColby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Feb 5 20:51:28 CST 2007
>Although it is Linux, you don't need to know linux. LOL. Ya just couldn't resist eh? John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:45 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Building a network storage device On 2/5/07, JWColby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > I have a need for a large, fast, redundant network storage array. I > need a gigabit network link, raid redundancy, and terabyte capacity > with the <snip> > I have a spare computer with a "3 GHz" Athlon X64 processor, a > gigabyte of ram and a built in gigabit NIC. It certainly seems like a > raid 5 (or preferably raid 6) array shared at the root level would serve admirably. > Throw a software firewall on it which filters to only allow local > 192.xxx address ranges to address it. My network system is (ATM) WFW > based and so I would likely just stay with Windows XP as the OS. > Any thoughts from you folks on this idea? Has anyone done this. > Words of wisdom? Unless there is a compelling reason to do this, > please leave out the "go Linux" stuff. I have enough to do without > doing the star trek thing. How about something like NASLite http://www.serverelements.com/naslite.php It's a single floppy, yes floppy, that you boot your computer from and do some simple config and away you go. No need for an OS, it's on the floppy. Although it is Linux, you don't need to know linux,. You just need to follow an install doc to get it up and running. I have a P90 that I've considered doing this yet, just haven't taken the plunge. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com