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New DIY NAS Build advice (OS) and opinion
Sammy, do you have any recommendations of other helpful packages to install? Right now I've only got the ones mentioned in this post and a few others for HTPC (XBMC and Sabnzbd). Thanks! -Kendall -
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DIY NAS high performance vs. Vendor NAS low power consumption
Just so no one else makes the dumb mistake I did. Even if you did partition the drives so they show sd*1 in the fdisk -l output, you do not include the "1" in the hdparm.conf file. The hdparm.conf file should look exactly like Sammy has in his example. -Kendall -
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New HTPC/NAS build
Thought I would give a little update: Received everything on Wednesday. For the life of me, could not get the USB drive install for Ubuntu Server 10.10 to work. After a few hours of trying I gave up and pulled a SATA CDROM out of another box and proceeded to install via CD. Next problem... -
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New HTPC/NAS build
I agree completely that 320GB is overkill for the OS drive but SSD seems to be overkill also. The MB doesn't support SATA III so there will be a bottleneck there. Also the machine will always be on, so startup speed is not that important. I guess the main reason for the OS drive is energy... -
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New HTPC/NAS build
I am looking to build a new HTPC/NAS system. This will mostly be used for storing/playing movie rips, music server, general storage. Here is the system I was looking at: Intel i3-540 Scythe SCSMZ-2000 CPU Cooler Zotac H55ITX-C-E mobo G.Skill Ripjaws 2x2GB DDR3 F3-10666CL8D-4GBBRM EVGA...