[CentOS] Re: settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Jul 2 16:08:33 UTC 2008
on 7-2-2008 8:52 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Rudi Ahlers
> <Rudi at softdux.com
> <mailto:Rudi at softdux.com>> wrote:
>
> nate wrote:
>
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>
>
> I think my action plan now will be to figure out how to
> install CentOS
> on a USB memory stick and make it boot on any machine
> (making it easy to
> replace if need be), and then to play around with the RAID a
> bit and see
> how well it works.
>
>
>
> Another option you may want to consider is a PATA->CF adapter. I use
> these for my OpenBSD firewalls and have them installed on 1GB CF
> cards.
> Performance should be better? Compatibility certainly is better,
> there's
> no way I could boot to USB off these aging P3-800 systems. The
> CF cards
> just show up as regular HDs
>
> I use these ($7):
> http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH
> <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SY-ADIDE2CF-B1&cpc=SCH>
>
> Paired with Lexar CF cards. Not all CF is created equal, well
> maybe it is
> today. I found my Lexar CF cards were 5-10x faster than my
> Kingston cards
> of the same size, which surprised me. Not that I need high
> performance in
> firewalls that do no disk I/O but it was painful for the OS
> install to
> take hours(Kingston) instead of minutes(Lexar). Both pairs of CF
> cards
> are a few years old, today maybe everything out there is reasonably
> fast.
>
> At least with the above adapters be aware that those adapters above
> do stick up. I think a 2U chassis can fit them(I have tons of
> experience
> in supermicro systems). But no guarantees. You may need another
> adapter
> or perhaps a male to female IDE cable so that you can mount it
> another
> way in the chassis.
>
> I suppose you could even get two and run RAID.
>
> Just don't put your swap on the flash if you can avoid it.
>
> nate
>
>
> ______________________________________________
>
> Thanx, nate
>
> That's a good suggestion, but I think the USB memory sticks could
> work better / more reliable, and will be easier to access in the
> cabinet. I'll play around with it a bit and see how it works.
>
>
> --
>
> Kind Regards
> Rudi Ahlers
> CEO, SoftDux
>
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> Hi,
>
> (I apologize in advance if someone thinks this is OT)
>
> I've been reading this thread since it started, and what I could really
> say is you should go for freenas, it can be installed in a matter of
> minutes in a usb pendrive, I use it on a 2gb kingston one using an IBM
> eServer tower chassis, Intel D201GLY2 mainboard, 1Gb 667Mhz RAM, 2 HDs
> those are 750gb SATA in RAID5
2 drives in raid5? Then it is really only a raid 0, and will fail sooner or later.
which are hold entirely for backing up my
> servers, that include M$ SQL, M$ Exchange, CentOS LAMPs and CentOS MySQL
> boxes(about 500Mb daily using Samba and NFS)this box has been running
> about eight months now, also I have another one running on an old Dell
> P3 using a cheap VIA SATA PCI card and a CF to IDE adapter which holds
> 320Gb and 500Gb SATA HDs for my personal backup and haven't had any
> issue except for my electrical bill that increased a few mexican pesos
> only. The best thing it's you configure all via web, and there's no need
> to learn FreeBSD at all.
>
> You should read the Knowledge base maybe it can help you more to make
> your mind:
> http://www.freenaskb.info/kb/
>
> hope it helps,
>
> cu when i cu.
>
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