Chuck's Nas

Chuck's NAS

Goals

Build an expandable home NAS with as little extra investment as possible.

Hardware

  • ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard
  • AMD Phenom 8750 3xcore
  • 4x Corsair 1GB
  • 1x Hitachi 250GB system drive
  • 2x Hitachi 1TB drives data drives (to be mirrored)
  • Supermicro 5 bay SATA hotswap enclosure
  • Gigabyte Nvidia 7900GT video card (this machine will still double as a workstation for a while)
  • Antec Sonata II case
  • Antec 350watt green power supply

I bought the Phenom since it was the right stepping for OpenSolaris to support Cool-n-Quiet operation. It is also a black edition, so I'm hoping that I can underclock it a bit to bring the power usage down. Initially the system will have just 2 drives mirrored, but there is enough expansion available to add new disks when I need to later.

Current Status

Waiting for some of the parts to arrive

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