-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Iv'e done a NAS with centos 5.2 here. Specs are: Portwell WADE 8056 board with Intel Core2Duo 2,4GHZ, 4GB (2x 2GB kingston DDR2 667), 4x 500GB Samsung SATA2 HDD's and a very nice Chenbro ES34069 NAS case. The board only supports SoftRaid, so i made a raid 5 software based on centos. The NAS runs very fine. But u dont have any kind of webinterface, i managed all over Samba (MediaCenter is a Windows System). You can also use NFS or FTP. Here on my Macbook all fileaccess runs fine with Samba shares. The only reason why i use a Core2Duo is because is have some other XEN virtual machines running on that NAS. Centos 5.2 is running also very nice and fast on a Intel D945GCLF board with ATOM CPU build in (1.6GHZ),but this board only have 1 IDE and 2 SATA connectors, on the other side is needs much lower power then the other and its very fast. This board needs for LAN connections a driver from RealTek homepage!! Otherwise Centos 5.2 is crashing by loading the installer. You can read about it here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/RealTekRTL8101 Greetings Shade Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > Hi all > > I want to look at setting up a simple / cheap SAN / NAS server using normal PIV motherboard, 2GB (or even more) RAM, Core 2 Duo CPU (probably a Intel 6700 / 6750 / 6800) & some SATA HDD's (4 or 6x 320GB - 750GB). My budget is limited, so I can't afford a pre-built NAS device. > > Can this be done with CentOS? I've been looking FreeNAS (which is built on FreeBSD), and it look like a great project, but since the hardware support in FreeBSD is limit, I'd rather use Linux for it. > > Has anyone done this? If so, please share a bit in your experiences :) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhna6UACgkQaH0wtXEw1Ms4tACfUaDjoed3CBAu9cF4Kx3jQmMH CcgAn3yfBOdDIJeVdV9iHYcOsnFVcUzc =/WdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----