Hardware is powered by:
- Intel D425KT Atom based processor 1.80Ghz
- 4gb DDR-1333 RAM/memory SODIMM
- WDC 1 Terabyte SATA hard drive
- 512mb microSD & USB memcard reader for FreeNAS installation.
- Others, were old parts from old PC's which are still good ATX casing & ATX Power Supply.
512mb SanDisk M2 memory card and a memory card reader. I will install FreeNAS 8 on it. You can download and read more about FreeNAS at http://www.freenas.org/
I use an opensource FreeNAS 8 to operate necessary features to drive the server to its purpose - but I preferred FreeNAS 7.
After successful setup, you can then connect it to your modem/router/wifi to access, save, and stream audio video personal files from your laptops, desktops and even to your wifi phone. You can also backup your data files from your laptop and wifi phone if in-case your phone or laptop crashes or even loosing it from anywhere.
Below is my network setup at home.
* This project setup is currently on test mode and right now it works fine and currently using it at home. I was planning to upgrade disk capacity and with rugged use to at least 2Terabytes in RAID1. But I need to have a PCI SATA-RAID controller card.
** This is not a tutorial on how-to-install FreeNAS. Just showing up the cheap mainboard I got with few old componenets and built it as my home storage server for family use.
4 comments:
Add a couple of drives, 1 more for RAID 1 or at least 2 more for RAID 5. Thus introducing some sort of crash recovery route for your setup.
i was thinking of having SATA-RAID controller pci-card or might use software RAID which currently FreeNAS 8 capable of. Price hike on hard drives at the moment here on the Philippines.
Same here for the prices, good thing I have invested before it rose up. My NAS box is a Synology 12 bay storage, populated with 12x2TB drives on RAID-6 config, giving me approx 18TB of space with 2 disk redundancy.
The OS is also based on linux kernel, I managed to SSH on the box itself but haven't tried to play with it as I'm not that knowledgeable in linux. ^^
Wow Synology! quite expensive for home storage. But they're good as well as Qnap. It can be a substitute for Dell Equalogic or Library.
Mostly, firmwares are embedded with Linux but it can be easily manageable using its standard web interface. You don't need to SSH all the time unless you need to modify the systems not included in the web GUI.
Way to go for that real hot storage of yours!
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