![]() ![]() ![]() I want to control which software is installed on the NAS and what it doesįiles of arbitrary size (within reason) and content should be stored on the NAS and not corrode or lose integrity over time Hardware and software components should be interchangeable without redesigning the entire system Connect LAN to Wifi router, does name resolution and time server. Samba (aka Windows shares) on Ubuntu, USB, SATA. Commodity hardware should be able to connect to the NAS. The NAS serves as a network attached file system for home use the NAS operates a few hours a day and is either off or in standby most of the timeĬommodity hardware, open source software, modularity, keep it simpleĬommonly used computer platforms should be able to access files on the NAS. Since long-term data integrity and robustness is a concern, the NAS should run some sort of redundant RAID level. Every piece of hardware, from the hard disks to the case and motherboard have been switched out for something else in this decade, sometimes more than once, so the focus on modularity paid for itself. I’m staying away from proprietary NAS solutions because a hardware failure would make data recovery hard to impossible without the exact same hardware replacement. The NAS mostly stores files (documents and media) on a software RAID 6 and serves them over Windows shares to the local network. The NAS is perfect because it is simple, safe, modular and extensible and it is cheap because it is built of second hand, commodity parts. ![]() The HP Proliant microsever gen8 is affordable, compact and runs on Ubuntu I’ve been running for a decade a self-built NAS at home, so I thought I’d write down my experience so that others might gloat over my many failures and gasp in awe at my few triumphs. This post discusses hardware considerations, installing Linux, setting up software RAID, robustness and dealing with data corruption. This post was extensively discussed on Hacker News.Īlex Buznik, kindly provided a two-part Russian translation: part1 and part2. ![]()
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