dem Wrote: > Yikes, that does suck. > > A couple years ago I built my own NAS box using a Mini-ITX board, a > 3ware RAID card, and 4 Seagate 160 GB PATA drives (which seemed huge at > the time) running Fedora Linux. One of the drives failed after a few > months and I was able to replace it without any downtime, but the > rebuild only took an hour. >
Dem, you're good. 3Ware is *the* way to go for a RAID setup on an existing PC. The support in linux is there. No freakin' softRAID. I use softRAID on my present file server but it's only RAID1. If I was going to upgrade it I'd go 3Ware and RAID5. As for the Infrant boxes, why run SlimServer on them? Why not throw together a really cheap linux box with a GBit NIC, NFS mount the NAS, then share it!! That'd be smokin'. That's my thoughts and intentions. -- notanatheist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18555 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
