FreeNAS Rulez.
I have just breathe a new life to an old Pentium III computer by making it a PC-based NAS. I installed FreeNAS on it and will try to put a RAID controller in there somewhere and have an additional RAID-1 500GB network drive for my porn digital images (I currently have a measly 100GB storage in there now).
It used to have Microsoft MCE installed hoping I could use it for streaming videos and photos. It ended up unuseable because it’s just too damn slow.
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March 22nd, 2007 07:59
[…] I have received my cheap PCI Raid card (eBay is a cheap geek’s friend) and bought two 300GB diks and configured them for RAID 1 (Mirror) on my FreeNAS machine. Good thing the RAID card worked even though it’s documented as compatible only with PCI 2.2; my motherboard is only PCI 2.1 compatible. Setting up on the card’s BIOS was painless and my FreeNAS machine was working within a few minutes. […]