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Okay, I did a (very quick) writeup about the whole thing and posted it on my AFS space. You can find it at http://www.msu.edu/~kramer45/openfiler/ . For those of you who don’t want to follow a link, I used a Supermicro 846A 4u chassis which has 24 SAS/SATA drive bays and then added a Supermicro motherboard, an Areca 1680IX 24 port raid card, 12gb of RAM, and basically let ‘er rip. There’s some details as to the build and configuration tweaks I had to make in the writeup and a couple of photos – I’ll post more photos the next time I have the unit down for service. And yeah, the writeup is done in iWeb – I didn’t feel like actually doing HTML and it’s surprisingly not that crappy for a very basic web editor. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 ________________________________ From: Jon Galbreath <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Jon Galbreath <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:29:05 -0500 To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Atom Based NAS Devices? I’m sure I’m not alone in my curiosity. Can you provide more details about the hardware you’re using? Thanks in advance! Jon Galbreath MCSE/Security+ Systems Administrator International Studies and Programs Ph: 517-884-2144 [log in to unmask] From: Kramer, Jack [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:12 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Atom Based NAS Devices? Another option in terms of NAS is rolling your own system based off of Openfiler (openfiler.org) or something like it (the BSD-based FreeNAS comes to mind). We’re in the process of deploying an Openfiler based system over here that’s providing 21TB of storage at a total cost of well under $10k. You could go hardware raid for large storage or, for something where performance isn’t as important, you could go software raid and save a bundle. It’s also a great way to repurpose hardware that you may have sitting around as the minimum system requirements are very low. ---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 > From: Jason Coleman <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Jason Coleman <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:34:26 -0500 > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Atom Based NAS Devices? > > I suggest researching it at http://www.smallnetbuilder.com, they were an > excellent resource when I was researching NAS devices for myself. > > The one you are looking at is too new to have a lot of info on yet. Thecus > is generally well regarded in the space though, but it's also at the higher > end, cost and a performance-wise of the SOHO space. You may try their > forums to see if there's any early adopters of it or to check on other Atom > based devices. > > Good luck! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Puzzuoli [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:59 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] Atom Based NAS Devices? > > We're considering the possibility of purchasing an atom based NAS. Has > anyone researched these? What features are considered important aside from > iSCSI support? One that looks interesting to me is the Thecus > N4200: > http://bit.ly/aId9Dt > > A favorable review can be found here: > http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2010/02/24/Thecus-N4200- > 4-Bay-NAS/p1 > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts. > > --Al