From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 29 12:09:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A622016A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:09:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.23.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C82043D53 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@mail.ru) Received: from [83.237.61.15] (port=1087 helo=[172.17.0.69]) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp id 1Cjcdm-0003gV-00; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:09:22 +0300 Message-ID: <41D29E6F.2010509@mail.ru> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:09:19 +0300 From: "Andrew P." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: infofarmer@mail.ru List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:09:24 -0000 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.