http://www.diynas.com build your own network attached storage device Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:12:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Toms Hardware reviews the Drobo USB DAS device. http://www.diynas.com/2007/06/27/meet-drobo-a-data-saving-robot/ bit-tech.net has a good overview of different RAID levels. Pros and Cons of each level are explained in a clear manner. In the last few years RAID has become really quite popular. Once purely in the domain of high-end enterprise servers, today, any self respecting enthusiast motherboard had better have ... http://www.diynas.com/2007/06/12/understanding-raid/ SmallNetBuilder checks out the rackmount Thecus 1U4500 which can hold four SATA drives. http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/thecus-1u4500-review-rackmount-nas-with-focus-on-performance/ George Ou over at ZDNet.com has a blog post about adding a good chunk of storage to his computer. All that is needed to duplicate this is 3 free drive bays, 5 free SATA ports, and a power supply that can handle the extra 150 watts while the drives spin ... http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/25-terabyte-hot-swap-storage-%e2%80%94-for-730/ George Ou over at ZDNet has RAID benchmarks for various flavors of RAID, based mainly around the RAID10 and the Intel ICH8R RAID controller. http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/10/comprehensive-raid-performance-report/ SmallNetBuilder walks through building a 16 drive RAID5 NAS with FreeBSD 6. http://www.diynas.com/2007/05/03/raidzilla-diy-raid5-nas-with-attitude/ SmallNetBuilder reviews the  Linksys NSS4000 NAS. http://www.diynas.com/2007/04/30/linksys-nss4000-biz-class-nas-with-pizazz/ SmallNetBuilder has a writeup of the different types of prebuilt NAS devices available. http://www.diynas.com/2007/03/22/nas-basics/ SmallNetBuilder has a list of NAS devices benchmarked by different criteria. A homebuilt Ubuntu NAS device make an appearance in several benchmarks. http://www.diynas.com/2007/03/22/prebuilt-nas-benchmarks/ Debian Administration looks at setting up Software RAID5 with the new Debian installer. http://www.diynas.com/2007/03/22/software-raid5-and-lvm-with-the-etch-installer/