"Poor" man's NAS

[Federico Voges]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> ...
>
>   
>> Are SATA drives now considered to be "server quality". Conventional wisdom
>> is that only SCSI is good enough for "real" production servers.
>>     
>
> The folks at Pogo Linux seem to think so.  I think they're
> primarily using 3ware controllers.
>
> There are SATA drives built for this type of operation (e.g.
> Western Digital Raptors) that allegedly are similar to SCSI in
> their quality.
>
> You might want to check out the FreeNAS software.  It's BSD
> based, but I wouldn't let that stop me (our longest uptime
> machine here is a FreeBSD 4.8 box that's been up 715 days).
>
> http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id &Itemid2
>   
Nice piece of software. I've been testing it using the vmware image from 
that page (I tried to setup one from scratch but it didn't recognize the 
scsi disk - probably my fault tho), and it's really simple but powerful. 
It even has zeroconf (bonjour/rendesvouz) and some other nifty features 
(like using active directory for user auth).

It's still lacking NIS and LDAP for user auth. But as it is right now, I 
think it might be a good choice for small and medium companies (of 
course I've only tested it under light usage and using vmware but 
performance is good).

Thanks for the link.

Cheers.

-- 
Federico Voges.

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