I've had no troubles in 6 months using Naslite on a p3-866 440bx w/4 750gb drives as a nas.
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Greg Sevart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:20:57 To:<hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] big hd opinions? You're going to need an add-in PCI card anyway. The 440BX in that BX6 board only supported ATA33, and didn't support 48bit LBA. Hence, no drives > 128GB are supported. The OS may be able to override this, but would you trust it? Plus, assuming you're using gigabit, your interface is going to limit your throughput. 2 hot spares for 4 spindles is a little overkill. I generally only use one HS unless the spindle count is > 15. (ie: the smallish 30-spindle EMC SAN I just deployed has 2 hotspares, which is actually more than EMC's recommended 1 per 30). Any reason why you wouldn't just use RAID10? Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:58 PM > To: Hardware Group > Subject: [H] big hd opinions? > > Ready to build my NAS. The m/b is a very old Abit BX6 r2.0 with an > Intel > P2-450. And I want it to run headless; like a humming box (appliance) > in > the corner! I suspect this puts SATA drives out of class ATM, unless I > try > some PATA/SATA adapters. This is possible; but was really planning to > use > PATA drives due to the m/b's age. > > The OS will be some flavor of the current NASLite series. Can not > decide > which version to buy ATM. > > Looking for opinions and/or user experience with the crop of >100GB > hard > drives. The plan is to try 4x 500GB drives. 2 hot, 2 as hot spares. > > Opinions welcome. > Best, > Duncan
