[SATLUG] OT / OOS (Off Topic / Off OS): FreeNAS anyone?

[George, Jason (San Antonio)]

Hey Daniel-

I'm cobbling this NAS box together w/ older PC parts I have on hand.
Looking @ the Linksys NSLU2, it seems the going price is gonna be $50+.
I did get a high-speed CF card, but as Sam suggested I'm not sure if it
supports DMA. No worries about hiding the NAS in a closet- I got a
server cabinet for it :-D.

I'd like to RAID my NAS... Any suggestions on which card to purchase and
from whom?  Thanks for the feedback. -Jason

>Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:41:55 -0600
>From: "Daniel Goller" <morfic at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [SATLUG] OT / OOS (Off Topic / Off OS): FreeNAS anyone?
>To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List"
>	<satlug at satlug.org>
>Message-ID:
>
>Why not run a distro off a usb stick on a Linksys NSLU2, easier and
faster
>though would be to just boot off of the hdd that holds your storage in
an
>external enclosure. performance for such a low power device is really
nice.
>using a armeb uclibc install allows you to install any headless server
>software you might require for it, i ran a lightweight httpd, sshd,
nfsd and
>more on mine, the distro i chose was gentoo, more since gentoo's cross
>compilation offerings are still outstanding, secondly because i found
the
>precompiled offerings too limiting, check out
http://www.nslu2-linux.org for
>more.
>
>The hawking tech 54g usb stick also works for that. which allows you to
just
>hide it away in a closet,  and it won't take up much space there.
>
>Hope this helps any,
>Daniel