hey all,
so i'm getting a bit tired of having to headbutt my main server at the house every so often. it's a really, really nice box that's given me eons of service, and was a hilarious home-spun hardware hack back when i created it (link | link... and no, those drives outside the case weren't part of the final array... they were just for moving data around) but now my tech resource usage has really grown beyond its capabilities. heh, it's kind of startling to say out loud that the huge file server in my home (which until recently was also the primary domain controller, the apache web server, and the perl-enabled spam-assassin-running mail daemon) is a dual-celeron 466 with 256 MB of RAM.
one of my first orders of business in this next new home upgrade pertains to my large disk array. i'd like to roll things into something more dedicated to the task of high volume file serving. that says NAS to me. the thing is, i'd like to keep costs down as much as possible... i'd like to use the existing drives from my current RAID array, since it's being taken all down anyway.
is it possible to get an multi-bay NAS device (i have a five disk array presently) without any drives present and add them myself? my current disks are EIDE... i think most NAS hardware i've seen runs on SATA. still, figured i'd ask around.
so i'm getting a bit tired of having to headbutt my main server at the house every so often. it's a really, really nice box that's given me eons of service, and was a hilarious home-spun hardware hack back when i created it (link | link... and no, those drives outside the case weren't part of the final array... they were just for moving data around) but now my tech resource usage has really grown beyond its capabilities. heh, it's kind of startling to say out loud that the huge file server in my home (which until recently was also the primary domain controller, the apache web server, and the perl-enabled spam-assassin-running mail daemon) is a dual-celeron 466 with 256 MB of RAM.
one of my first orders of business in this next new home upgrade pertains to my large disk array. i'd like to roll things into something more dedicated to the task of high volume file serving. that says NAS to me. the thing is, i'd like to keep costs down as much as possible... i'd like to use the existing drives from my current RAID array, since it's being taken all down anyway.
is it possible to get an multi-bay NAS device (i have a five disk array presently) without any drives present and add them myself? my current disks are EIDE... i think most NAS hardware i've seen runs on SATA. still, figured i'd ask around.
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