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If you wanna give anything Linux/Unix a try (let's say Fedora (not hugely recommended for servers as Fedora is usually a fast paced OS, in that case you can use CentOS, from the same Fedora family but with a more stable release cycle), Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD or any other), you'd need to investigate a bit and get familiar with the quirks of the OS, which tend to change from distro to distro, my first advice would be to test them on virtual machines so you get to know them, usually Linux/Unix OS in their server flavor come without a GUI, as it's usually not needed, since you can always work from the terminal but the configuration process can be somewhat complex, so a good tutorial or guide can be pretty useful (i.e Fedora 23)
Other option is to use a "pre-built" OS made for NAS storage, personally I like FreeNAS, as it has a lot of different configurations that allow you to have full access to every aspect of the files server, as well as a built in redundancy system (if you configure it, a good overview of that system is made here and here the last one being a pretty overkill system lol), this option is a bit more user friendly
Will read into that, try and fail a little and see what results come around.
Kiho said: Another Wall of text
Our "entertainment system" where we watch movies and play music is built on Ubuntu. We also use it for our file server. we have a 4 disk e-sata box (8Gb, 6Gb after redundancy) attached to it using an e-sata port multiplier. NOTE that Intel processors do not support the full sata spec and do not support port multiplication, we use a separate card with a Marvel sata port. We use software raid 5 and samba to connect to our windows computers on the network.
Earlier we had a Netgear ReadyNAS. When the main unit failed, the unit was obsolete and I was unable to find a direct replacement. The unit was fortunately linux based and we were able to recover the disks by simply hooking them to an old linux system as my better half had JUST ripped a stack of new DVDs to the system which we had not yet backed up.
FYI: The new Netgear NAS is NOT linux compatible and not backwards compatible (That is a Marketing FAIL) as it uses a proprietary raid chip. That is why we decided to go with the linux software raid. Raid can save you from a disk failure but NOT from a system failure, if the system is using a proprietary raid. You can only recover from that if you have a spare system using the same proprietary raid - don't go that route, obsolescence will stab you in the back.
I'm not sure if I got my information from the right sources, but doesn't make a RAID5 the most sense with 3, 5 or 9 disks? But meh, a RAID5 is always better than a RAID0. Learned that the very very hard way. Anyways, I gotta do some stuff the next days and when everything's up and running I'll drop a note.
Charly
over 7 years agoI'm not sure if I got my information from the right sources, but doesn't make a RAID5 the most sense with 3, 5 or 9 disks? But meh, a RAID5 is always better than a RAID0. Learned that the very very hard way. Anyways, I gotta do some stuff the next days and when everything's up and running I'll drop a note.