[XCSSA] NAS the VIA EPIA way

Fri Jun 26 09:44:48 CDT 2009

No one has spoken up yet on it, nope. The original drive configuration  
was a RAID5 of 160GB drives, so you would have the same amount of  
space. I was going to poach one of these guys for myself but I really  
don't need to do that (I've got the 160GB from my Tivo I don't need  
anymore which, on an aside, I <3 weakness.com).

If you want them, feel free to e-mail me off list and we can talk  
about pricing, how to get the goods to you, etc. Note that I've only  
used the thing on Linux but I'm sure it works on Windows too. If  
you're going to run the OS off of it, you may need to slipstream a  
Windows XP install.

Werd,

Tim

(t i m at m o o c o w p r o d u c t i o n s dot c o m)

On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:00 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> Hey Tim,
> Has anyone spoken up for the hardware yet?  I'm starting to get  
> nervous
> about my 320G drive acting up and want to see about getting the  
> critical
> stuff off of it.  I guess it could also be a memory problem but  
> haven't been
> able to do much troubleshooting (it is a win box that keeps blue  
> screening
> with odd stuff - ever hear of stop 6f session3_initialization_failed?)
> coupled with the fact that when I restarted it, it decided to boot  
> off a
> different drive with a different version of win that can't be  
> activated (for
> obvious reasons, the hard drive was recovered from another pc).
>
> Richard
> http://www.kevinspitcrew.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xcssa-bounces at xcssa.org [mailto:xcssa-bounces at xcssa.org] On  
> Behalf Of
> X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:34 AM
> To: xcssa at xcssa.org
> Subject: [XCSSA] NAS the VIA EPIA way
>
> I thought I'd update everyone with the ongoing saga of my NAS project.
> I opted to go with a fanless VIA EPIA (SN10000EG) motherboard. The one
> I got, while a bit expensive, has 4 SATA ports, a CF slot, and a full-
> size PCIe slot (although I believe that is shared with the GigE port).
> It took some work, and in fact, I had to re-install Ubuntu (a few
> times), but I finally got everything up and running on a 4GB CF card.
> I'm a bit worried about writes to the CF and I plan on doing some
> initrd trickery but for now I just have certain key directories (such
> as /var/log and /tmp) mounted on a tmpfs.
>
> Anyhoo the important part is this:
>
> root at filedawg:~# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]
> [raid4] [raid10]
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1[2] sda1[0]
>       976759936 blocks [2/1] [U_]
>       [===>.................]  recovery = 19.2% (188427328/976759936)
> finish=185.7min speed=70732K/sec
>
> unused devices: <none>
>
> *MUCH* better than the 2MB/sec I was getting previously. The Seagate
> Barracuda LP drives are turning out to be pretty nice too. They are
> super quiet and, even with the RAID rebuild going on, are running at
> 28C (assuming 'smartctl' is reporting that correctly).
>
> Apart from the initrd stuff noted above, I still need to find a
> smaller PSU (for greater efficiency and lower noise - maybe even use a
> picoPSU), I need to figure out why the CPU scaling stuff isn't working
> as well, and re-setup all the shares along with mDNS etc.
>
> I'm pretty happy with the setup though. There's no doubt that using
> something more off the shelf (such as something from qNap, Buffalo,
> etc.) would have taken a lot less time, but would have also been less
> fun :)
>
> I can't remember who was looking for a hardware RAID controller, but
> it looks like I have no further use for mine. If anyone wants it
> lemmie know. I bought it for pretty cheap and I'm willing to part with
> it for cheaper so name your price. It's a bit older (LSI SATA-150) but
> it's a 6 port, and has a battery on board. I'll also have 2 or 3 extra
> 160GB drives if anyone wants those. I am going to use one of them more
> than likely for my Windows PC so I can setup a RAID1 on it as well (it
> already has a 160GB drive that I'm hoping is close enough that I can
> clone to one of the others).
>
> Werd,
>
> Tim S.
>
>
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