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My File Server
By ubernietzschean | April 1, 2008
More and more these days I feel that it is important for everyone who takes technology seriously to have their own file server with RAID technology. It just makes sense to have a centralized location for all important information with some form of redundancy to protect one’s valuable data.
My solution to the problem was to build a 2.5TB (RAIDed) NAS system running GNU/Linux (CentOS 5).
Here are the specs:
- Super Micro PDSLA Socket 775 Motherboard
- Intel Pentium D 805 dual-core CPU running at 2.6GHz
- 3GB DDR2 533MHz Memory
- LSI Logic Megaraid 150-6 SATA RAID controller (no software RAID for me)
- 6 Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA disks. 7200rpm, 16MB cache.
- Cooler Master 650W power supply
- Norco 4U server case with 6 internal HD bays
- Zalman CPU cooler
This system was built in August of 2007 and has served me extremely well ever since. Disk I/O on a traditional PCI bus can be a bit slow at times but it is more than adequate. My next upgrade to the server will be a motherboard with PCI-X (no, not PCI Express) support.
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