The Home Server Thread

yashiro

yashiro

yashiro

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I'm having a bit of a crazy idea these past few weeks. It's along the lines of:
Some micro atx board,
boots and runs the OS from compact flash,
storage is on a collection of internal drives possibly using ZFS.
which also implies using Solaris at home.

Plan:
Make a small home server for less than a HP EX475 1TB MediaSmart that's at least as powerful, hardware wise.
http://mswhs.com/2008/12/29/hp-ex485-and-ex487-review-roundup/.

Basic Requirements:
Lower power usage.
Low noise output.
Free Operating System.
Act as file Server for Windows, Linux, Mac, Xbox & PS3 (DLNA).
Wired Lan.

Extended Requirements:
Doesn't look too stupid, externally.
Gigabit Lan.
Intelligent storage management.

What do folks in this forum use at the moment?
 
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What's the status of ZFS on BSD though?

At the end of the day it's more about data storage than some gui front end.

ZFS on Linux is a non starter at the moment.
BSD, no idea, probably has a kernel based port?
Solaris, home of ZFS, works as well as can be expected.
 
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