With Core Duo 2 coming out this month I'd build a new box. I just recenty rebuilt my fileserver with expanded storage using a 3Ware IDE RAID controller that allowed me to use existing drives around the house to build a RAID5 array. 3Ware is a hardware RAID controller and works like a charm in linux. Personally, I keep my OS on a seperate boot drive. Reason being, if you grow tired of a certain distro and/or it's capabilities you don't have to lose your data drives. SMEserver and ClarkConnect both have a web interface to configure shares and other services. I know CC also offers Webmin since I'm using it.
A NAS will offer simple setup, likely require SATA drives, consume less power (which could lead to overall performance issues with updating your database or browsing your music via the web interface), likely be quieter. So, yeah, pros and cons for sure. If I had the money I'd love to play with an Infrant ReadyNAS. All things considered, all I spent (on Ebay) was $250 for the parts I didn't already have (motherboard with 64bit PCI and 3Ware RAID card). -- notanatheist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25340 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
