Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

[Mark Beaver]

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 at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:00 PM
To: questions at 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.



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