[ALUG] Good NAS boxes for Linux?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 02:02:29PM +0000, Venura Mendis wrote:
> Ive built a NAS/media PC using Epia mini ITX. It cost me about £220
> with 500GB hardisk +dvd rom and a nice case. The motherboard I got is
> definitely on the high end and if all you want to do is run Samba the
> cost can be brought down lots + hardives are abit cheaper now. My box
> runs at 21W on idle. If you use a flash card for the OS, power
> consumption will probably be lower. Have a look at
> http://linitx.com/

Useful, thank you very much, it looks like a good solution.  I'd
probably not run Samba as I'd mount the drive across the network using
NFS and/or do backups using rdiff-backup (which works over an ssh
connection).  I guess I could probably get away without a CD/DVD drive
too by installing across the network though I'm not quite sure how you
get the system to boot initially without either a floppy or a CD.


> Quite a decent company, though if you are picking up from there office
> in Needham market, check the stuff they give you. They gave me the
> wrong motherboard but there were no issues changing it.
> 
They're local as well - excellent!

> My box runs xubuntu, mythtv, samba (Does the network fileshare/backup
> stuff adequately for me) torrentflux for torrents and linpha for
> pictures. Its sort of a combination between NAS and media boxes that
> are out in the market currently.
> 
I'd probably not run X at all, just ssh and maybe a web server.

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Chris Green