[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

I really really want to know more about your configuration. I have been
looking at the productising of this sort of solution.

I know how I would do it and it is probably different than how you did it.
Details, do tell...?

Did you use LVM?
How did you (did you?) RAID?
Are you using a snapshotting paradigm for backup?
How are you going to backup?

I'd line you hear your thoughts and insights,


> The box and disks arrived early last week but I didn't get a chance to do
> anything with it until today.
>
> The box has 6 SATA ports on it: 4 in the RAID cage, 1 on the motherboard
> for an optical drive, and 1 eSATA port on the back of the chassis.  The
> 250GB disk that ships with the unit takes one of the RAID cage slots.  I
> moved this up to the optical drive bay where it runs fine as a system
> drive.  It has a USB socket on the motherboard for an internal flash drive
> for those who want to go that route.
>
> I wound up getting a batch of Western Digital WD20EARX disks at
> MicroCenter.  Same price as NewEgg.  That's hard to beat.  The Hitachi
> disk will go to some other purpose.
>
> Flash boot with FreeNAS was my original intention.  I abandoned it for
> vanilla Debian because I couldn't get the sharing services to start.  A
> NAS box is pretty useless if it can't share file systems.  So, Debian
> Squeeze onto the box, recreated my RAID set and copy over my existing
> configurations.  This marks one of the things I like about Debian:
> relatively easy hardware migrations.
>
> It really is remarkably quiet even under load.  I can hear the disks
> seeking under load if there are no other sounds in the room to mask the
> noise.  Otherwise it's unnoticed.
>
> Here it is live and running:
> http://www.gweep.net/~ratinox/02-12-12_1244.jpg
>
> Not so impressive to look at, is it?  That's a G4 Mac mini on the left to
> provide some scale.  The USB disk on top is my video library, currently
> being rsynced over to the ZFS RAID.
>
> --Rich P.
>
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