Cool I'll bring mine on the face to face meeting..... David Thomas IT Specialist Manager Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courts 401 Lomas NW Albuquerque, NM 87103 dthomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us 505-841-9807 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>Eric Krieger <unmlobo@gmail.com> Sent by: ubuntu-us-nm-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 02/13/2008 09:40 AM <table border> <tr valign=top> <td bgcolor=white> <div align=center>Please respond to Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com></div></table> <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td valign=top>Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com> <tr> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td valign=top>Re: [Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC Shared Storage Ideas?</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Cool... with your drive, the 4 from Dave, and the 2 from me...I think we have a NAS. =) Eric Joel Edwards wrote: > I should have 1 80GB SATA freeing up sometime soon here. > > On Feb 12, 2008 9:51 AM, <DThomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us > <mailto:DThomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us>> wrote: > > >     I should have no problem locating 4 80gig IDE drives > > >     dthomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us <mailto:dthomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us> >     505-841-9807 > > > >     *Eric Krieger <unmlobo@gmail.com <mailto:unmlobo@gmail.com>>* >     Sent by: ubuntu-us-nm-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com> > >     02/12/2008 09:49 AM > >     Please respond to >     Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com>> > > >                       >     To >                       >     Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com>> >     cc >                       >     Subject >                      Re: [Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC Shared Storage Ideas? > > > >                       > > > > > >     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... > >     http://www.kingwin.com/product_pages/kf4000-bk.asp > >     I have one 80gig SATA drive I can donate too.  I have a couple 250gig >     IDE drives I can donate. > >     Eric > > >     DThomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us >     <mailto:DThomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us> wrote: >     > >     > What kind of drives do we need? IDE? >     > >     > David Thomas >     > IT Specialist Manager >     > Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courts >     > 401 Lomas NW >     > Albuquerque, NM 87103 >     > >     > dthomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us >     <mailto:dthomas@metrocourt.state.nm.us> >     > 505-841-9807 >     > >     > >     > *Eric Krieger <unmlobo@gmail.com <mailto:unmlobo@gmail.com>>* >     > Sent by: ubuntu-us-nm-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com> >     > >     > 02/12/2008 07:27 AM >     > Please respond to >     > Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com>> >     > >     > >     >                   >     > To >     >                  ubuntu-us-nm <ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com >     <mailto:ubuntu-us-nm@lists.ubuntu.com>> >     > cc >     >                   >     > Subject >     >                  [Ubuntu-US-NM] EPC Shared Storage Ideas? >     > >     > >     > >     >                   >     > >     > >     > >     > >     > >     > 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.   >     > >     > 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... >     > >     > 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. >     > >     > 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. >     > >     > Are there any other thoughts or experiences with something better? >     > >     > Thanks, >     > >     > - Eric >     > >     > ---------------------------------------- >     > Eric J. 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