howtoforge.com — This tutorial explains how to turn an old PC with additional hard disks into a simple home file server. The file server is intended for home use. The home file server is accessible by Windows and Linux computers in the home network.
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venkat23Jan 23, 2008
how many time you guys will submit same type of article what the hell is this
Closed AccountJan 24, 2008
sorry to keep pimping freenas but the freebsd tcp stack it uses gives you lots better performance
icetypeJan 24, 2008
I've been there-- Linux has some really bad drivers for certain network cards. Windows will be fast, linux super slow. A lot of cheapo built-on gigabit cards are almost useless in linux. Get yourself a $20 intel 10/100/1000 nic and you'll get awesome performace in Ubuntu.
diecastbeatdownJan 24, 2008
ubuntu server is a great choice for people who know nothing about system administration. there is some tweaking to do after installation so it is not point and click.
chucaraJan 24, 2008
Those were my first two thoughts too. FreeNAS was meant to do exactly this, ubuntu offers absolutely no advantages if you just install the kernel and OpenSSH.And I don't understand the need for NTFS either. Support is flakey at best, and you're reallty misunderstanding the point of NAS if you need to connect the harddrive to a windows machine (which is the only valid reason for using NTFS)
zammitJan 25, 2008
i agree, but i don't think it deserves a -digg b/c of that...i admit I haven't read the article, but if using ubuntu (target audience = gui users), why not just use something like gedit?
tvanwykJan 26, 2008
It doesn't need to be NTFS. Samba can serve shares from Linux-native file systems just fine - my Samba server runs just fine off of an ext3 partition.I'd personally much rather use reiserfs or ext3 - there's no reason to go NTFS on a setup like this, and in fact may hurt performance compared to what it would be with a modern Linux-native file system.
inorganicmatterJan 27, 2008
Talk about pointless over-complication. Just use FreeNAS and move on.
Closed AccountJan 30, 2008
one piece of advise though on FreeNAS:don't try to create a RAID5 array on old hardware. At least not without a hardware RAID controller. doing RAID in software takes a modern CPU coz it has lots of calculations to do. If you can live without the RAID5 and deal with RAID0/1, then FreeNAS rulez!!! Brilliant!
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