my HOMEBREW Home Storage Server --

This is a low power homebrew server for home and personal data storage backup. ideally it must be a low-power consuming server to meet basic household expense, only 35watts. No need for keyboard/mouse/monitor after setup installation, it is simply a server box plugged into power and ethernet LAN/router.

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.

1Terabyte SATA drive, for pure data storage only. It will be formated to UFS file system after installing FreeNAS 8 on the memory card.

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.