[Gllug] Network file server (for home use)

[Nix]

On 2 Dec 2007, Andy Farnsworth outgrape:
> If you build your own system you can put in 3 or 4 drives (500gb are 
> cheap today) and run in RAID 5 mode (Give up 1/3 storage for 
> redundancy).  You can run these with a mobile CPU, underclock it, and 
> put a big speed controlled fan on it and the fan will run very slowly if 
> at all.  Your biggest noise makers at that point will be the drives 
> themselves.  You could bump up to 1 Tb drives which should reduce the 
> noise, but that will cost more and reduce the redundancy for a given 
> storage size.

RAID-5 is CPU-cheap. You can just use an *old* CPU. (That's what I do.
It's fairly quiet when the active cooling is off, which is always:
see my other post in this thread.)

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