Building a file server for home

[KAYVEN RIESE]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:

> KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
>> 
>> What about the wire?
>
> I have no idea what you refer to.

A server has to talk to clients, right?

>
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
>> 
>>> This is a continuation of a post I started in -stable. 
>>> http://marc.info/?t=126560537900002&r=1&w=2
>>> 
>>> I'm going to be running FreeBSD 8.x with RAIDZ.  Most of what I've decided 
>>> upon / has been suggested is at 
>>> http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/10/the-file-server/
>>> 
>>> In short, I'm pretty much decided upon this case:
>>> 
>>> * Athena Power CA-SWH01BH8 Pedestal case
>>> * http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811192058
>>> * contains 2 SATAx4 Hot-Swap HDD bays
>>> * sounds like good value for a case with hot swap
>>> * got a better case?
>>> 
>>> Various suggestions have been made for the motherboard and HDD.  I'm 
>>> asking you folks for suggestions based on what you know.
>>> 
>>> Here's the list of items to be selected, but feel free to suggest stuff 
>>> not listed:
>>> 
>>> * mother board
>>> * power supply
>>> * hard drives
>>> * RAM
>>> * perhaps a caching SSD
>>> 
>>> If the motherboard lacks the SATA connections, I'm probably going to use 
>>> the Syba PCI Express SATA II 4 x Ports RAID Controller Card SY-PEX40008:
>>> 
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Express-Ports-Controller-SY-PEX40008/dp/B002R0DZWQ/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1258452902&sr=1-22 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>
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