Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:09:19 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations? Message-ID: <41D29E6F.2010509@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGENLEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGENLEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of David Gerard >>Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:00 PM >>To: questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations? >> >> >> >>Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I >>set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as >>network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. >> >>Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical >>considerations? Have any of you done this, or know anyone who has? > > > Maxtor's MaxAttach NAS 3000 products were exactly this - FreeBSD on a PC > motherboard in a rack mounted case with a web interface to manage > them. The rumor was that Microsoft got so upset about it that they went to > Maxtor and gave them a free license to use Windows as an embedded OS > for their MaxAttach NAS 4100. > That's something :-) I only built a separate FreeBSD file-server because I have to run Windows on my PC and I can't trust M$ software with 700Gb+ of data. However, some people store many terabytes with Windows Storage Server - and look what happened in UK a few weeks ago :-) Andrew P.
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