Rudi Ahlers wrote: > You're quite right with what you say. I have a 2U chassis already, with > a Gigabyte motherboard + 2GB RAM + Core 2 Duo E7650. I also have a few > 160GB SATA HDD's laying around, but they're too small. So, I'll be > option to put 6 (if I can get the HDD cages fitted into the chassis) 1TB > HDD's into it instead, which with RAID 10 will give me 3TB space. > > Thus, I don't want to spend more money to buy new equipment if I have > this already. > > Using CentOS is preferred since I know it the best. I haven't used This thread is quite interesting, I think quite a lot of people who contributed to it dont seem to realise you can do everything using just the stock CentOS distro, and if you are using CentOS-5, the scsi-target tools will let you setup and manage iscsi targets as well. Setup lvm on the raw drives, and get snapshot and lvm mirror support as well. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq