Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS | Tom's Networking:
The purpose of this article is to build an inexpensive RAID 5 Network Attached Storage (NAS) system. I'll then compare the home-built system to off-the-shelf products to see how they compare in terms of performance. If we cut enough cost and produce enough value, we might convert some of the RAID 5 procrastinating masses into RAID 5 users.
Recently, at $dayjob, we gave up on using a Windows Storage Server based solution (with Unix for Windows services), blew the whole thing away, and rebuilt it as a Debian box. Solved all our performance and reliability issues on one fell swoop.
May 8th, 2007 at 11:51 am
My main concern with these setups is how much noise they make (especially since many such devices will be used to stream media), so investing in a quiet power supply, cpu fan would seem essential. It would also be usefull to put up benchmarks (subjective or otherwise)as to how quiet the system is against other off the shelf examples.
June 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
It’s interesting how IT engineers developed this technology in order to have constant reports about the health of your disks.