ram: you wont need more than 2gb. ever. ddr3 wont make a noticeable improvement on a nas either. 1gb of ddr2 would probably be fine, but with prices you could consider 2gb just to have it. i definitely would consider maxing out on RAM, as far as your budget allows you to: depending on your workload...

Data drives 2 x Samsung F1 1TB in RAID 1 (for data security) i'd reconsider this. raid1 won't improve _data security_ in any way whatsoever, it would just slightly improve the availability of your system, and reduce downtime on hard-disk failures. no kind of live data replication, especially a low-...

Of course is it possible to switch to AHCI. You can choose between SATA (IDE), AHCI or RAID mode. ah, great, thanks. i've assumed that this option is unavailable, due to this quote from the initial post of this thread: A BIOS with all the intellegence of sea cucumber with a learning disability (no ...

hi!

could any of the owners confirm that there's no way to switch the SATA-controller on the southbridge into AHCI mode?

thanks!

I can install dd-wrt/openwrt on a linksys/asus router and get away with it... and then host the webserver on another server... hey but I am just a little bit more eager home user with some linux hobbies... I really dont want to host a number of servers in my home (I already have a big desktop, a HT...

3) RAM: This box will be a Samba server as well as an NFS server. Nothing else, and it will have maximum of a couple of users. Do I need more than 1 GB of RAM? Generally speaking: no, you could do fine with far less. Depending on the usage scenario (working with smaller, frequently accessed files v...

i'd throw in some kind of extra storage for the system partitions, maybe a small, quiet 2.5" drive or some kind of cheap/slow solid-state storage (a CF card, for example -- cheap enough to buy a spare one, this way you'd still be able to keep the sole benefit of a raid1-setup to some extent -- highe...

I have since tested booting the machine with a drive missing. mdadm gives me [U_] or [_U] to tell me that the RAID array is degraded, and using mdadm -add I can snap the other drive back in the array (4.5hrs for the 1TB). As there aren't a lot of changes to the data it's a shame it can't recognise ...

Grub Next, I need to sort grub. Currently, grub is just on the first harddisk, so on boot if the 1st harddisk is down, the system will not be able to start. Reading around, I need to add 'fallback' to grub's menu.lst, and then point it at a Kernel declaration just like http://www.howtoforge.com/sof...

Raidsonic RAID1 box would probably be quite a tight bottleneck -- solutions like this tend to be very slow, even doing simple stuff like raid1. far from 40-60MByte/s, anyway. I also would not recomment Via SN boards (ain't got any experience with the EN series, though) for this task. I've got an SN1...

heh, if you'd like to imagine some _really_ bad cases of systematical misspelling, just think of the havok all those pop-culture buzzwords and expressions derived of or containing english words life (as in 'get a life'), live (as in 'live wire') and live (as in 'to live a life') wreak on the minds o...

It'd be doing simple routing, and firewall rules... ok, in this case you shouldn't care much for cpu-performance of the platform you chose. any 586+ should be more than enough. just make sure you've got enough RAM if you'd like to do stateful filtering and tend to have loads of open connections. 64...

do you have any specific requirements (performance-intensive services, high-bandwidth VPN connections? ...)? if (cpu-)performance is not really an issue, i'd suggest a setup based on a small, low-power board like pc engines ALIX or soekris net4801/net5501 and some kind of cheap flash memory -- a CF ...

maximum theoretical bandwidth of USB 2 is 480Mbit/s, firewire (ieee1394 aka firewire 400) - 400Mbit/s, thus somewhat limiting the maximum throughput of modern SATA disks. personally, I'm using the 'old machine in the closet', which works nice for me, mainly because it's not only used for storage, bu...

1) i'd rather consider getting a nice old intel BX based board and a slow coppemine-core celeron. this should give you perfectly adequate performance, some nice-to-have features like a possibility to use up to 2Gb of ECC RAM and so on, low power consumption, and a rock-stable chipset. you may be abl...