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Bud
17 Jan 2006, 2:27pm
i was looking at a Infrant ReadyNAS which uses its on os which is called Infrant's RAIDiator OS. Does anyone know if there is a os like that thats more open source? Im setting up my new file server and am choosing an os and liked its features.
Gobbles
17 Jan 2006, 5:15pm
might help if we had a list of features you are looking for.
Bud
17 Jan 2006, 5:45pm
http://infrant.com/learn_features.htm
Armo
17 Jan 2006, 6:47pm
bud, whats up man. do you want a NAS raid or a machine raid? i use a bas ass raid card tht i highly recommend.
Bud
17 Jan 2006, 7:41pm
right now i have a a64 3200+, 1gig ram, 2x 250gb wd ide hd's, 2x 300gb wd ide hd's. I want a reliable file server that i can stream video's off the hard drives, ftp into it, not sure what else yet. right now raid isnt a big deal. I like the os they made looks real nice and stable so thats why i was looking at something like it. I might get another asus a8n deluxe and use the onboard raid when i get some sata drives
Armo
17 Jan 2006, 8:24pm
the onboard raid for that is awful, its software raid 5 and the manager is all done in Java. if you get that board, with bios revision 1013 of higher you can use a PCI Express raid card like i got. ( i cant be sure other manufacutures cards work in the PCI Express slot other than Areca )

Highpoint has the 2320 x4 slot 8 sata card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816115026

4 port x8 slot Areca SataII card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816131003

8 port x8 slot Areca SataII card Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Controller Card - Retail

then the big kahuna like i, and chris have, the 12 port x8 slot Areca SataII card Areca http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16816131006


chris has 4 300gig sataII drives on it and let me post a picture of his atto scores. its not even funny

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Armogeddon00/attobench1.JPG

with Sata 1 drives, mine peask at about 200MB read and 150 write.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Armogeddon00/Atto-New.JPG
Bud
17 Jan 2006, 8:40pm
im not gonna raid 5 at most it might be 0
Armo
17 Jan 2006, 8:43pm
then the nvidia raid on any of the nForce4 boards will probably do you just fine.
Bud
17 Jan 2006, 8:50pm
yea thats why i was thinking that i might go linux though for an os i dunno. its either linux or 2003 server
Armo
17 Jan 2006, 8:55pm
i use XP SP2 and i dont have any problems what so ever.

with linux just make sure it supports Samba shares.