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Homebuilt NAS - one week on

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Posted in NAS, Home Automation, Hardware, Linux on January 15, 2008 at 10:04 am

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First I will list the parts I used:

Zirco mAX Micro-ATX Desktop Case with 300W PSU
VIA iDOT PC2500E

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Homebuilt NAS

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Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2008 at 5:33 pm

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Well, I have decided to build my own NAS with raid-1, as the chassis on the market just plain don’t do what I want for the price I want.

I want:

min of 2 drive bays
User installable disks

Looking online that left me with 3 options, a Dlink, a Qnap and a Linksys. All were resonably expensive when disks were added, and none really could recover from a lost disk with grace.. Also if the mainboard went I realised I’d be screwed if I couldn’t get an exact same controller in 3-4 years time (no mean feat).

Soo….

I’m building one. I’ve worked out prices for a system (including disks) are rough equivalent to a box without - if using a mini-itx box.. with 1.5 Ghz processor and 512Mb of ram, I can get case, cabling, mainboard, and memory + 2x 250 Gb disks for ~

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I’ve found the music system I want……

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Posted in Home Automation, Music on January 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm

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One word.

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