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[Project] NAS Appliance
Network Attached Storage Appliance
Been thinking alot about my storage system lately, as my Synology NAS drive is way out of date, as it can't support over 500gb drives so maybe upgrade to one of their Synology 4 Bay units but that would end up costing about £600 to £800.
So after not thinking every detail through I thought why not use my little cheapo Celeron system ...
Intel Celeron E3200 2.4GHz
Asus P5KPL G31 MATX
2GB DDR2
Adaptec 2120S SCSI U320 64MB cache Controller (laying around)
2x Fujitsu 18GB 15,000rpm U320 SCSI RAID0 (Server 2008 OS)
2x 2TB Western Digital Green
Antec 350watt Basiq PSU
Coolermaster Elite 330
Installed Windows Server 2008 and just sharing a 500GB drive of films atm as a trial, before spending any more cash.
Need to add a better PSU and a better cpu would be nice. We'll see how things go.
I plan to stick it in a corner with a lan and pwr cable and run it 24/7 :up:
*Note i know this isn't the usual type of project, i just thought i'd share what i am doing will add some pics and info when i have more time
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I knew I had forgotten something - Anti-virus
I had hoped to use a spare copy of Kaspersky, but of course it doesn't work with Server 2008.
After looking around for some free trials I found AVG Internet Security Business Edt £188 for 5 PCs, I only really need one or two atm And it doesn't seem to have the ability to serve AV updates to local PCs which is a bit rubbish, would be better for my gaming/company network (it still has a gaming profile though lol) to centralise updates, not that I use AVG on my other PCs.
I will continue looking while the trial runs down. I am hoping this Kaspersky will work, and centralise updates, we will see. If not Avira do a version that does everything i would like but its 400mb file on my poor celeron :w00t: maybe the xeon :up:
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Does Microsoft Security Essentials run on 2008? I would have thought so seeing it's a MS product after all.
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no that was my first thought to, but no it wasn't covered. I mean surely it's not much to ask for someone to offer basic security per server.
I wanna fit a Dual Port Gigabit server card and a decent Raid card, but there are only 1x PCI-E (16x) and 2x PCI, and as the SCSI RAID card is taking up one, i will have to see if it'll all fit :D
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yer ive got the same problem as lloyd ;/ rofl
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Well so far so good, I have instant access to the share even over wi-fi.
I transferred a 6GB video file at 6mb/s though I have seen up to 10MB/s.
I'm going to replace the wi-fi connection with a cat6 cable run, go from 6mb to about 50mb/s (max speed i have seen). My bedroom is right above my PC room so shouldn't be too much trouble, just need to order a couple of face plates for the wall mouted LAN point.
Which brings me to another point, back when nvidia brought out the 590 chipset their onboard gigabit supported teaming which makes sense when they provide 2 ports. But now when i looked at my marvell onboard they don't support teaming - seems like a major oversight when they include 2 ports on the motherboard !! :@
Here's the RAID card I was talking about - LSI 9260-4i PCI-Express x8 4-Port SAS/SATA 6Gb/s RAID Controller Kit
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what is a raid card? a grpah card and if it not what does it do thats a lot of money
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RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (Hard Drives)
A RAID Card like this has it's own CPU and RAM (same as the SCSI one I am already using, same price to) so it uses no CPU clock cycles to run the array.
It's very good if you have critical data as you have a greater choice of RAID implementation - 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 6 etc etc so you can rebuild the array easily if a hard drive fails :up:
Google RAID for a wiki definition
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I take back what I said, it doesn't need a new CPU, for this service I think it's perfect :up:
Saw a peak of 256MB/s transferring from upstairs over gigabit :D
I do however need to get a RAID card, gonna get this i think to tide me over
Adaptec AAR-1420SA 4 Port SATA II PCI-X
X is different from PCI- Express, u get 64bit 133mhz cards and slots :up:
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I was transferring a 10GB BD rip down to this server last night, it did most of it at 80MB/s which I am pleased with :up:
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Here's some pictures so far.....
And some more.... It's a bit of a mess still ..... gonna get a small modular PSU and different case that can fit my SATA backplane but still small enough to leave in a corner :D
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I thought I would try Kaspersky Business AV and I have to say for the money there is no way i will be buying it, all you get is basic anti virus for £199 :S (1x file server & 5 pcs). Whereas AVG IS Business Edition you pay just £188 for 5 PCs (any number of workstations and servers) and you get complete protection.
I'm gonna have a look at Avira first before i take the plunge.
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My little rant about network teaming was a bit premature, after a bit of digging I found an app at Marvell, i think it includes the driver too, but could be wrong.
See pic for a view of the extra tabs....