Do It Yourself NAS

SmallNetBuilder checks out the rackmount Thecus 1U4500 which can hold four SATA drives.

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 up.

Fast forward 15 years later, and I just bought 2.5 terabytes of hot-swappable SATA-300 storage for just under $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.

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

SmallNetBuilder reviews the  Linksys NSS4000 NAS.

SmallNetBuilder has a writeup of the different types of prebuilt NAS devices available.

SmallNetBuilder has a list of NAS devices benchmarked by different criteria. A homebuilt Ubuntu NAS device make an appearance in several benchmarks.

Debian Administration looks at setting up Software RAID5 with the new Debian installer.

X-bit labs benchmarks eleven 160 GB hard drives.

SmallNetBuilder takes a look at the Norco DS-500, a five drive eSATA attached drive enclosure.