Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 15:06:24 -0500 From: "Mark Beaver" <beaverm@corp.earthlink.net> To: "'David Gerard'" <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations? Message-ID: <0a7801c4ec4f$8e0a0790$32b445cf@EOCPC16> In-Reply-To: <20041227200011.GC27571@thingy.apana.org.au>
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I personally do this with 2 IDE 80Gig drives in a CCD Configuiration = with Samba on (better free windows support) a Pentium 2 350 with 512 Megs of = RAM with no issues, this serves my: Music, Pictures, movies, and such = without issue, and I stream them off of the share just fine, even with = movies/music I don't use anywhere near all of a 100Mbit connection to it. Bear in = mind to that my Music folder has around 60Gigs in it and around 12,000 or so = files. So browsing that can be resource intensive, but still responds = reasonably fast Mark -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:00 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? Does serving stay at wire speed? Recommendations for motherboards or peripherals? - d. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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