Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:03:37 +0300 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations? Message-ID: <41D078A9.1040508@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20041227200011.GC27571@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20041227200011.GC27571@thingy.apana.org.au>
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David Gerard wrote: > 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? > I built an entry-level file server which has 3*200Gb + 1*160Gb ATA Drives. The motherboard is Abit BE6-II with built-in HPT370 IDE controller, Celeron 950GHz and 384Mb RAM. I don't use HPT Software RAID, ccd or vinum. The net throughput is 10Mbytes/s. 6-7 people often watch movies simultaneously over Samba and don't even feel they're not alone. IMHO, it's very, very cost-effective. I'd put it this way: if there are some OS'es which are good for file serving, FreeBSD is among them. Best wishes, Andrew P.
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