Re: NAS appliance or home server

In article <3eA*IuBks@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
Theo Markettos  <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>Daniel James <wastebasket@nospam.aaisp.org> wrote:
>> I've been meaning, for some time, to provide some sort of storage
>> server for the motley collection of computers -- some Windows and some
>> linux based -- that lurk around here. The primary requirement is that
>> it be able to run headless, and that it support both samba/cfs and NFS
>> from a RAID-1 array (probably 2x750GB SATA), but it'd be nice to be
>> able to do some other things with it too.
>
>I've been thinking similar thoughts.  I currently have an old-ish desktop PC
>doing the job (Athlon XP 2600+).  As far as power consumption goes:
>
>Drives spundown 60W
>Idle 80W
>Peak 90-100W
>
>It has two 3.5" hard drives, so I'd budget 10W per drive.  There's a third
>3.5" drive in a USB case.
>
>I'm quite surprised that this hefty great lump is actually considered
>relatively low power these days.  Which is going to make beating it a bit
>tricky.

You think so? Check...

http://unicorn.drogon.net/power.jpg

So that's an EK1000 motherboard with a flash-drive, (and a 4-port PSTN
interface card - this is a Linux box running asterisk) but add in 2 x
low power (sub 10W drives) and you're still under half your box...

>There's nothing to stop the drives from spinning down, but perhaps the
>software doesn't have that setting (if it's Linux you can probably get in
>and run hdparm).  But I don't know whether the wear on the drives would be
>worth it.

Don't spin down until about 2 hours of idle time. You'll need to change
the ext3 mount parameters too, or use ext2.

Check http://www.samwel.tk/smart_spindown/index.html


>> up, but is there a distro that's designed to be installed and run on
>> normal PC kit that has no keyboard or monitor connected? Something that
>> will install from a LiveCD that boots with shhd support, perhaps?
>
>Perhaps.  You could also swap out the discs to another machine and install
>from there (onto a USB case?).  When I did this the only thing that broke
>was the X11 video driver - one machine had an NVidia, the other an SiS or
>something - I had to tweak xorg.conf to use the right driver (the console
>worked, but Ubuntu put X11 in 'safe' 640x480 mode).

Any distro that allows you to not install the GUI - Eg. Debian..

Gordon
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Theo Markettos (20.08.2008 13:32)