Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get Freenas on there.
I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was happily chugging along serving up files for over 2 years.
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On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, "john" <jee@???> wrote:
> I abandoned NAS a long time ago as cost in-efficient.
>
> The way I go now is to use a SATA drive caddy - cost £12 to £20 and use
> Samba.
>
> Hard disk size. Your choice.
>
> the following will detect and mount the drive caddy disk.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ls /dev/sd?
> for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
> do
> echo "- - -" >> $i
> done
>
> /sbin/sfdisk -s
> ls /dev/sd?
>
> The first line of output is what is already mounted
> The second line will give you what is mounted plus the new hard disk
>
> The following will unmount the disk when changing it.
> #!/bin/bash
> if [ $# != 1 ]; then
> echo "Synopsis: stopsata.sh <drive>"
> exit 1
> fi
> export DRIVE=$1
> for i in $(mount | grep ${DRIVE} | awk '{print $1}'); do
> echo Unmounting $i
> umount $i
> done
> echo Powering down ${DRIVE}
> echo 1 >> /sys/block/${DRIVE}/device/delete
> echo You may now safely disconnect the drive
>
> example: sudo ./stopsata.sh sdc
>
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:33:31 +0000
> DAWE C <the-labyrinth@???> wrote:
>
>> I would like a NAS at home, on which I can store lots of files and
>> have them accessible from both Limux and Widnows. (I am trying to
>> avoid the mistake I made w few years ago, when I got a network disc
>> which needed a driver to access, so was only available from certain
>> versions of Widnows!).
>>
>> Any recommendations from people?
>>
>> Chris
>
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