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Storage Box (II)

« 29 June 2008 | 15:52 | Hardware | 1 Comment »

The first concept I had for my file server revolved around the Asus Eee Box. It met the low power requirements, was very quiet, and it’s diminutive dimensions would make it perfect to tuck away. However using this box would mean that I’d be stuck with external USB drives for storage. While this would not [...]



Storage Box (I)

« 26 June 2008 | 22:42 | Hardware | No Comments »

I’ve wanted to build a dedicated file server for quite some time now. I had a lot of requirements floating around in my head for what I wanted to achieve, mainly:

1TB+ of fault tolerant disk space - I’ve already got 5 disk drives in a variety of sizes holding my precious data. Losing a disk [...]