Re: Planning on a DIY NAS

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

NAS built by "some bloke" with spare drives and a mini-itx board
here:
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/Content/Jukebox-Server.html
:-)

It appears that you can use a CF card with FreeNAS
(http://www.freenas.org/index.php?option=com_openwiki&Itemid=30&id=sug:en&s=card)
but wouldn't you lose one of your IDE channels?
FreeNAS can also run from a floppy or USB key drive memory stick thing.

HTH,

Tim.



On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:20 PM, paul_watkin <paul.watkin33@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Moving to a Windows Home server has left me with 4 spare 250Gig
> drives which I plan to turn into an additional NAS drive for the
> movie collection.
>
> I do however have a couple of questions I hope people can help with
>
> 1. Looking for a Mini ITX board powerful enough for the job but
> extremely low power and preferably fan less
>
> 2. I am contemplating using FreeNAS can this be put on a CF Card and
> run from there??
>
> 3. If I use Free NAS do I have to careful about powering the drive
> down?? It won't be on permanently as no need for instand access to
> movies during day etc
>
> Any info greatly appreciated
>
> Regards
>
> Paul

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