My little winter project is going to be to build a nice fileserver for my home to serve music, dvd isos, etc, to 4 client pc’s.
I have a real nice new antec full tower case with their big wattage psu.
I picked up a socket 754 athlon64 processor and stock heatsink for a song.
I have 4 drives, 2 are 250mg maxtor ide drives, 2 are 250gig maxtor sata drives.
I want to run each pair in a RAID1 array.
The only thing i have to buy is a new motherboard.
I’m steering towards one with onboard video.
Should I get one with onboard RAID? Do these things actually work properly?
Or should I just get two promise cards, one SATA one IDE RAID, and do it that way?
Now for the OS. I don’t have any legit copies of xp sitting here. I do have a 2000 Pro copy that i’m not using.
Should I use 2k pro or something linux oriented like Freenas.org?
The freenas was nice because it was linux, and it had a linksys router type configuration to it.