Hey guys!
My NAS 4220-B (ICY BOX) just died on me, the hard drives work fine, just somewhere along the line it's killed itself. I will send it to Germany RMA but in the mean time, I can either buy another NAS _OR_ spend equivalent money getting a server.
The server route is particularly attractive since I have a brand new Antec 380 Earth watts, core2duo (1.8ghz), Intel mATX mobo, 1gb ddr2 and a 40gb SataII drive to use for the OS just sitting here doing nothing.
All I really need is a case, a RAID card and a gigabit ethernet card?
My question is whether it's advisable to go down the server route? And if so, what will I need? — I'm thinking a linux flavour (Ubuntu?) that's going to let me run some ext3 shares (osx and vista compatible) in raid-mirror over the network. But I have no idea how to set this up, especially with user groups etc so would be nice to get some advice.
Another thing to note — It won't be public to the internet, it will sit behind a firewall and I think I will incrementally backup to a remote server every night with rSync.
Feel free to add to/answer any particular question or ask further questions.
Thanks guys!
My NAS 4220-B (ICY BOX) just died on me, the hard drives work fine, just somewhere along the line it's killed itself. I will send it to Germany RMA but in the mean time, I can either buy another NAS _OR_ spend equivalent money getting a server.
The server route is particularly attractive since I have a brand new Antec 380 Earth watts, core2duo (1.8ghz), Intel mATX mobo, 1gb ddr2 and a 40gb SataII drive to use for the OS just sitting here doing nothing.
All I really need is a case, a RAID card and a gigabit ethernet card?
My question is whether it's advisable to go down the server route? And if so, what will I need? — I'm thinking a linux flavour (Ubuntu?) that's going to let me run some ext3 shares (osx and vista compatible) in raid-mirror over the network. But I have no idea how to set this up, especially with user groups etc so would be nice to get some advice.
Another thing to note — It won't be public to the internet, it will sit behind a firewall and I think I will incrementally backup to a remote server every night with rSync.
Feel free to add to/answer any particular question or ask further questions.
Thanks guys!