[Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC Shared Storage Ideas?

[Eric Krieger]

Sweet!


DThomas at metrocourt.state.nm.us wrote:
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> I should have no problem locating 4 80gig IDE drives
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> *Eric Krieger <unmlobo at gmail.com>*
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> We can go with either IDE or SATA.  If we go with IDE we need to get
> some 5.25 to 3.5 mounting brackets to mount the drives in the 5.25
> bays.  I have and old PCI IDE controller that we can use if we go beyond
> 4 IDE drives.  If we go the SATA route I'll pickup and donate one of
> these...
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> http://www.kingwin.com/product_pages/kf4000-bk.asp
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> I have one 80gig SATA drive I can donate too.  I have a couple 250gig
> IDE drives I can donate.
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> Eric
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> DThomas at metrocourt.state.nm.us wrote:
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> > What kind of drives do we need? IDE?
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> > David Thomas
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> > One of the things that I've really been mulling over for the EPC Project
> > was how to do shared storage.  This is something that I see would not
> > only be used among the Computer Lab PC's but also throughout EPC.  Now
> > this is not something that I'm seeing that we need to implement Feb 24th
> > but rather later on.  
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> > That said I'm I would like all ideas from as many of you as possible.  
> > So here's what I see that the shared storage needs to be...
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> > 1. Cheap or Free Hardware.
> > 2. Excellent hardware support.
> > 3. Fault tolerant.
> > 3. Easy to setup.
> > 4. Easy to maintain.
> > 5. Support as many file sharing protocols as possible.
> > 6. Good support from the Open source community.
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> > The software project that seems to fit all of the above appears to be
> > the FreeNAS Project (http://www.freenas.org).  I think we have all the
> > hardware to build a FreeNAS box except for the hard drives.
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> > Are there any other thoughts or experiences with something better?
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> > Thanks,
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> > - Eric
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> > Eric J. Krieger
> > email: unmlobo at gmail.com
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> > Random Quote:
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> > "Just because you've beaten a sorcerer,
> > doesn't mean you've beaten a sorcerer"
> >        -Toth-Amon
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> > Tue Feb 12 07:11:45 MST 2008
> > 07:11:45 up 2:52, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.24, 0.13
> > #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 GNU/Linux
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