Networks NAS servers, NEED HELP TO INSTAL OPENFILER !

hello,

I'm planning to buy a NAS server to have at home, connected to the wifi network, to make back-ups and "share" my photos, music, movie ... to the other computers in my house.

and I saw this one, witch looked good to me.
Netgear ReadyNAS Duo RND2000

and maybe have two 1tb hdds in it.

would that be good enough ?
if you have any better idea please tell me,I don't know much about those server and network stuffs



thanks !

 

duh double post >.<

 

read this its the same but with 500Gb disk already installed.

 

another really good option if you have an older pc laying about is to build your own. it also has the added bonus of being much much more expandable if you need more space or performance in the future since you can easily add more disks, upgrade hardware etc. it also gives more flexibility over what services you can run as you get smb/cifs, iscsi, nfs, rsync, daap, upnp, ftp, webserver, bittorent etc. and saves money if you already have hardware over buying a dedicated device. i use freenas for this, but another good option is openfiler.

 

Older machines generally consume much more power than purpose built dedicated NAS devices though. Although yes it's a good option.

 

The quality of readybuilt NAS boxes can vary wildly. A Peer of mine had one that was horribly slow when it came to writing/reading lots of small files (photos,documents) which consisted of most of what he was backing up since he was running a advertising agency.

I dont know how well that one linked in the original post works, and I'm not sure how costly PC components are in Switzerland, but according to google CHF is decently close to the USD, and for $400 I could get
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101069 a cheap SFF pc case/mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116039 $40 celeron processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274 2 1 TB hard drives
and 1-2 gig of ram for 30-40 bucks

Not really cheaper, but for the same cost you could put it together yourself and customise how it works, however you want to. WinXP, 2k, linux, vista, with an antivirus etc...

 

I have an old(AMD athlon x2 5000) pc, just needs new hdds and and a cheap cpu cooler.
would that be better ?
It's also for my dad, so it important that it works well.

and what OS should it have, it already has windows vista home premium installed on it ?

 

well of course a pc will consume more power than an embedded platform. but even running mine 24/7 i haven't noticed an increase in my energy bill. of course my "old" pc is only 3 years old so has a good set of power saving options (msi rs480m2, amd 3700+, 4gb corsair ddr 400, 500 watt psu, 1 500gb 2x 200gb (on raid with onboard xor and 128mb mem), 1 160gb hdds and a sd card for boot drive running an amd64 embedded image freenas.
as for os when building your own i would reccomend a bsd or linux based solution for higher reliability.
for purpose built distros there is freenas (bsd) and openfiler (linux)
or you could run one of the standard full distros if you wanted though i would still lean towards one of the server images from the distro of your choice.

 

thx lysol, I downloaded OpenFiler but when I try to install it, it stops after the "mainscreen" and I get something like this:



here's the spec of the comp:

amd athlon 64 x2 5000
asus m2n-mx se plus
2gigs of pc2-6400 ram
asus 8400gs
one western digital pro 1TB hdd (32mb cache), a second will be added after the instalation of the os since I only have two sata ports and one is used for the dvd-drive(witch will be removed after the installation).
500w psu



I'd REALLY apreciate if someone would be kind enough to help me !
thanks

 

Does the bootloader have a noapci and noapic option (or acpi=off or something like it)

EDIT: looking at the screenshot, "noapic" is what you are looking for

 

I don't really know. I'm new to this stuff. but could it be that I configured something in the bios wrong ?

 

No, probably not... noapci is quite common with livecd's/installers.

I don't know Openfiler (never used it), but probably it goes like this:

You boot from a CD and then you get a prompt. You probably just hit enter and got this. Wel, at that prompt you can supply boot options, like noapci. You can probably get more info by hitting the function keys.

On most (full blown) Linux distro's you'll have to enter something like "linux noapci", but the info pages will instruct you on what to do. That or Google

 

thanks

"linux noapic" worked