I posted this question a short while ago and the responses were very helpful. Unfortunately the cheap solution was exactly that.. cheap and slow.
My current home setup is a based around a Linksys Wireless-G 4 port router.
I have 2 P4-3Ghz workstations for imaging work, a P4 desktop for accounting, email etc that are all wired into the router. My wife and son use laptops around the house and
occasionally I use my laptop upstairs. The network suits me fine for performance and
even for machine to machine file transfers.
I however need to centralize some file storage for work, home media, accounting and
backup purposes.
I bought and returned the Argosy Network Drive and also a Buffalo Linkstation. Both were fine but slow.
I would like to take a small form factor box and make a 500 gig RAID(for redundancy)
available to the network with decent performance. Can someone give me some pointers?
I have an old legit copy of win2000 available but am not against installing Linux
What do I need?
has to be energy efficient and quiet. I would rather not slave one of my P4 machines because I like to turn them off unless I am using them. The space is not so big and
heat and noise are big factors from the machines.
cheaper is still better, otherwise I would go buy a NetApp or something. performance is
still an issue.
My idea..
SFF board with fanless box, some ram, a couple of SATA drives, cheapo videocard and
win2000 or linux.
thanks for all your helP!
11Blade
My current home setup is a based around a Linksys Wireless-G 4 port router.
I have 2 P4-3Ghz workstations for imaging work, a P4 desktop for accounting, email etc that are all wired into the router. My wife and son use laptops around the house and
occasionally I use my laptop upstairs. The network suits me fine for performance and
even for machine to machine file transfers.
I however need to centralize some file storage for work, home media, accounting and
backup purposes.
I bought and returned the Argosy Network Drive and also a Buffalo Linkstation. Both were fine but slow.
I would like to take a small form factor box and make a 500 gig RAID(for redundancy)
available to the network with decent performance. Can someone give me some pointers?
I have an old legit copy of win2000 available but am not against installing Linux
What do I need?
has to be energy efficient and quiet. I would rather not slave one of my P4 machines because I like to turn them off unless I am using them. The space is not so big and
heat and noise are big factors from the machines.
cheaper is still better, otherwise I would go buy a NetApp or something. performance is
still an issue.
My idea..
SFF board with fanless box, some ram, a couple of SATA drives, cheapo videocard and
win2000 or linux.
thanks for all your helP!
11Blade