damnit now I am sitting here wondering if I should sell the NAS enclosure and throw the drives in a real box and do freenas/uraid
http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2011/05/05/guide-backing-up-your-mac-to-whs-2011-with-time-machine/
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Fuck lots of people run ESXi on these things…
I personally recommend either linux with a md-raid or freenas with a Raid-Z setup.
I prefer linux myself with samba, nfs and netatalk. Plus you can configure it to be a iSCSI san.
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I disagree, with a distro like a Ubuntu and aptitude install of netatalk should net you pretty much a full working AFP out of the box.
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http://wahlnetwork.com/home-lab/
I am going to just leave that there for you :), guy has tons of articles about doing home labs on the cheap.
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N40L has an internal USB port…
Going to do ESXi off the internal USB with a 8gb USB stick
Then give the mirrored 2 TB to FreeNAS
The box comes with a 250Gb and I have another 1Tb drive going to present those to VMware to create other VMs if I get bored.
This will let me turn down my other Linux server I use for socks5 tunneling when im on the road.
I’m running a 2TB Time Capsule anda WD TV Live with a 2TB Seagate Goflex attached. Why 2 NAS? My HDTV’s are a ways apart and this way if I am DL movies while watching a bluray movie I have on a NAS I don’t have any issues. The Time Capsule was 229 the 2TV Seagate was $65 and the WD Live with wireless was $65 all are mapped to my laptops
i am building mine with Win7 and XBMC… and a 2TB HD. thats should be plenty or me as i like to purge my catalog every once and a while…but i will have room for expansion if needed
Ended up running ESXi
Installed FreeNAS thought it sucked.
Install WHS2011 which was supposed to have a key installed it didn’t
Installed Windows Server 2012 with a key from my MSDN account and its running great.
Also have a Ubuntu VM going.
You can tell I’m a software engineer not a network/admin type by the fact that I’m just running win7 ultimate as my “server”. Handling streaming to 2 HTPC’s as well as being the XBMC MySQL host, Sickbeard and Sabnzbd host, Emit and Air video host (streaming to iOS and Android) and occasional FTP server duties. Just added a 3TB drive in addition to the 500GB, 1.5TB and 2TB drives that were already in it.
same here lol
I only ran server because I wanted to have access to IIS for testing and didn’t want to spin another VM.
In other news don’t do what I did :lol:
Server 2012 Standard doesn’t come with the Media Server add on and im not sure how to get it on…Google was no help.
I got another MSDN account so im going to install 2012 Essentials which is a mix of SBS/Home server and a replacement for Windows Home Server 2011.
Try Nas4Free… FreeNAS 8 blows