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Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 19:18 |
:lol: | |
PaulW |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 18:30 |
Ahh yes... mis-read that post! | |
James_DT |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 18:02 |
He said that the RAID drives run off a SATA RAID card, why wouldn't it just support that? | |
PaulW |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 17:53 |
Sam your motherboard won't be true rade, but infact "Fake Raid"... if you do migrate, its better to disable this in the bios, treat each drive as an individual, then you can use LVM for an expandable filesystem (add another drive, and extend the single partition onto it) | |
DaveyLC |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 16:47 |
quote: Buy a nas device and a print sever then. You can hide them away... Something like this: http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=FME-BR6215SRG&af=50 Just plug external USB drives into it. | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 16:38 |
Ahh OK. I'll have a ganders on their site later. :thumbs: | |
Dom |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 16:05 |
quote: It's built on linux, you can get a CD version as well, and tt basically turns your hardware into a Nas box with a HTTP interface. Have used it a number of times, even in a school enviroment where it got thrashed daily and it was spot on. And there are plenty of mods about. Like i say, only issue might be raid, especially if you're planning to use software (although i think freenas does support software to some extent)/chipset raid. So you might have to go down the dedicated hardware card route for raid. | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 15:49 |
Sorry Dom I didn't notice your reply there mate :lol: | |
Dom |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 15:45 |
quote: :boggle: File, printer, http server, run it off compact flash (use a compact flash IDE converter) for quick booting, piss easy to set up...list goes on... Not sure about raid though, but hardware raid is what i would look into for that as Freenas would just see it as a normal drive, unlike software/chipset raid that requires drivers etc. [Edited on 19-11-2009 by Dom] | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 15:31 |
@ Laney - it's a normal midi tower ATX case, there's space for 3x HDDs. | |
DaveyLC |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 14:37 |
Why do you have a server? If its just for file sharing why not get a SAN device? | |
ed |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 14:31 |
Even easier! | |
willay |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 14:09 |
quote: Or possibly a BIOS update for his current motherboard might help him boot from usb! | |
willay |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 14:09 |
quote: it is more efficient and secure and stable compared to windows, but if your windows box doesnt crash and you're network isnt open to the world.... then whats the problem? :P I'm all for going to linux dont get me wrong, but what I'm not for is making more work for yourself :lol: | |
ed |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 13:38 |
quote:You could get an old second hand ASUS MoBo for very little money that would boot from USB. | |
Dom |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 13:25 |
you looked into FreeNas (and likes)? | |
Laney |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 10:44 |
Oh :( I'm presuming there's only space in the box for 1 HDD too? Gay :( | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 10:41 |
Sadly my current motherboard doesn't support booting from anything other than HDD/CD/LAN. :( | |
Laney |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 10:40 |
As far as logging in is concerned, SSH? Maybe boot from a USB stick instead of a CD as well? :) | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 10:28 |
I just assumed Linux was less bloat than Windows and more efficient/secure to run as a file server? | |
willay |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 09:49 |
depends, can linux do something that your windows install cant? | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 09:27 |
I just remembered that the RAID drives run off a SATA RAID card (motherboard doesn't have SATA or RAID built in) so I'd have to find out if there is a Linux driver for the card - d'oh! | |
willay |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 09:23 |
Problem with your idea is it won't be fast, it will still need to call up binaries from the CD which will take time. | |
Sam |
posted on 19th Nov 09 at 09:00 |
My file server is currently running Windows XP but is due a replacement HDD soon (see here for details). |