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RAIDzilla: DIY RAID5 NAS with Attitude

3Ware/AMCC, Complete Systems, FreeBSD, How-To, Samba

SmallNetBuilder walks through building a 16 drive RAID5 NAS with FreeBSD 6.

Building your own Nas

Best Guides, Complete Systems, Guides, How-To, NASLite, Promise Supertrak, RAID Cards

WhatPC? brings a complete NAS building guide involving Mini-ITX motherboards, Promise hardware RAID, and NASLite commercial NAS operating system.

DIY RAID 5 NAS Server Worklog

Best Guides, Complete Systems, Guides, Hightpoint RocketRAID, How-To

This blog contains full instructions, including links and  pictures of all hardware needed, to build a 1+ TB NAS. Windows XP is used as the software, while a Highpoint RocketRAID hardware RAID card takes care of the drives.

I did some research into building a network attached storage (NAS) server, and bought the appropriate hardware online. I’ll cover the steps I took to build a homebrew NAS server capable of offering 1Tb of redundant RAID 5 storage.

Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS

Benchmarks, Best Guides, Complete Systems, FreeNAS, Guides, How-To, RAID Cards, Ubuntu Linux

SmallNetBuilder’s guide to building your own NAS device. In it they use a standard PC with an LSI Logic MegaRAID hardware-based RAID card. Included are step-by-step screenshots on setting up the RAID device using the MegaRAID’s bios, and benchmark of the machine while running Ubuntu Linux and FreeNAS.

DIY NAS Smackdown

Benchmarks, ClarkConnect, Complete Systems, Guides, How-To, Ubuntu Linux

SmallNetBuilder has benchmarks of file access to Ubuntu Linux and Clarkconnect over Samba. Included are instructions for setting up the software on both systems, and a guide to the hardware used in the project.

Ars System Guide: Home Media Server

Best Guides, Complete Systems, Guides

Ars Technica has a system builder buyers guide for low and high end home NAS systems. Both hardware and software raid makes an appearance.

With multiple PCs becoming commonplace in the home, the need to push data through every room in the house via Ethernet or WiFi combined with the proliferation of digital-only content mean the storage demands of home users are rising quickly.

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