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Firstly, appologies if this is the wrong place for this thread.

I am looking at swapping my current always on xp system from its current raid setup into a stand alone SFF raid 5 system. There are a few questions I have...

It is my understanding(not used Linux for a VERY long time tho), that unlike XP a Linux system can be turned off at the socket whilst running without any issues. Is this correct?

If this is setup on a Linux system will other windows systems(laptops) and my xbox be able to access its drives as they currently do?

As this will be a stand alone system with no monitor, what is the best software for remoting into the system... like XP Remote dektop?

Cheers all :)
 
BarmyYeTTi said:
It is my understanding(not used Linux for a VERY long time tho), that unlike XP a Linux system can be turned off at the socket whilst running without any issues. Is this correct?
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Windows (NTFS) in fairness is actually very good when it comes to power failures and rarely causes problems. It's not so much the operating system that influences the effect of power failures, moreso the filesystem. Since there are many filesystems available for Linux it all depends on what you choose. If my understanding is correct, journalling file systems (e.g. ext3?) cope much better with improper shutdowns (typically power failures) by their very design.

As for software, FreeNAS is supposed to be very good. I've only even tried it in VMWare but it's got to be worth a go: http://www.freenas.org/

Hope this helps, null :)
 
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FreeNAS has a web interface which is very easy to use so if you chose that there would be no need for anything else.

For general purpose remoting I would highly recommend SSH & PuTTY. Google if you don't know what they are. SSH is great :D. Webmin might also be handy (Google this too) but I never really liked it that much, just seemed generally messy and I'm quite happy editing files by hand.

Hope this helps, null :)
 
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