4 port sata cards are about $50, so motherboard density isnt really that
big of a deal. what i would worry about is how well the sata controller
chip is supported. the aforemented $50 cards are 99% silicon image chips
with excellent drivers. my mileage hasnt been so good with other onboard
sata chipsets.
Dean
Ben wrote:
I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB
IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so
wouldn't be of any use.
My main PC has 8 SATA ports and will become the file server when done,
again the motherboard is out of date.
You should have too much trouble tracking down a new Gigabyte
motherboard with 8 SATA ports on it, but four should be enough - I
have 4.4TB of capacity (configured as 2.2 + 2.2 with daily rysnc
between them).
Oh, and you misspelt pr0n. ;-)
Speaking of pr0n, here's some really nice pics of my home built NAS
cabinet. Hard drives tend to vibrate, and get warm when near one
another so I got a bit creative:
old drawer + elastic shock cord + 2 coat hangers + L shaped aluminium
cut to size and drilled:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack2.jpg
cables:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack7.jpg
next to the beast powering it:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack8.jpg
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Sonia Hamilton <so...@snowfrog.net> wrote:
Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that takes more
than 2 large disks, does RAID5, does NFS and CIFS. (I've seen a few devices
for home, but they were limited to 2 disks).
I'm wondering if buying such a NAS device would be more expensive than
buying a barebones mobo/cpu + case and putting Linux on. If so, any
recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of SATA drives (eg 6 or
8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that requires Windoze to support
said large number of drives?
Thanks, Sonia,
who has much p0rn to store (martial arts videos)
:-)
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