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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Finally the system is complete, after receiving all the parts from eBay. Except the SuperSwap 1100 drive bays, everything else were delevered to doorstep most conveniently. Absolutely No local taxes and within 10 days of payment and ordering. Petty impressive, right! I had to go to the GPO...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Got my LCD devise working with LCDProc. Sound easy but a bit complicated since the unit i purchased is from Sure Electronics, something which does not natively supported by LCDProc, hence no readily available driver on the current stable release. I will post a detail configuration guide on...
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    Microcontrollers and SMD Electronics

    Sorry guys, I am a bit over-occupied. Will continue soon as possible.
  4. lankavee

    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Received most of the components from eBay. Quite convenient, delivered by post to the doorstep, no hassle at customs. Yet to receive the 6 superswap drive cases, which is bulky and I am sure a trip to the GPO is ahead. Currently testing the LCD with LCDProc on FreeBSD. A bit harder than...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Operating system for the NAS I have selected FreeNAS after evaluating few open source solutions. Due to the fact that FreeNAS is quite stable and runs on 32MB of footprint, and flash bootable, alongside web based easy management console, FreeNAS stood ahead of others. True it has few hiccups...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    eSATA connector Since the motherboard I have chosen does not carry eSATA connector on board, I had to use an external bracket for adding eSATA capability. This is used to synchronize external hard disks with the NAS. eSATA provides upto 3Gb/s speed, which is more than 8 times faster than USB...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    USB-LCD Display (System status) Another option, but again I am more excited to have this up and running in my NAS box. Idea is to display system information on a 4 line LCD panel. As I intend to use the system even without a VGA card (no display), it is essential to have a display showing PC...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Three channel LCD temperature display Again an optional component, but I think would be something good to have. This displays temperature on 3 points (hard disk, CPU etc.). I intend to use all 3 sensors in-between hard disk array. Temperature and Fan speed display – Rs. 1000
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    CF to IDE adaptor and 1GB CF card This is completely optional but I declare it as a great addition. The selected NAS OS (FreeNAS) can be booted with a flash drive (64MB would be enough) more efficiently than from another hard disk. So my NAS system is flash booting and magnetic hard disks are...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    6 channel SATA raid controller card Perhaps one of the most critical component of the system. After so much research I decided to purchase Adaptec AAR 2610 SATA RAID controller from eBAY. This supports 6 SATA drives on RAID 0,1,10,5 configurations. My original intention was to build RAID 10...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    2GB RAM Kingston 2GB DDR2 is fixed on one slot. 1GB would have been enough. 2gb (Ddr2) Kvr667 Kingston– Rs 5800
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    Motherboard and Processor Already purchased locally. MSI P43T-C51 is probably an overkill for the intended NAS system, but I decided to purchase this without a dire reason. Since the selected casing has enough space, full size ATX motherboard gives me expansion capability, should ever requires...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    6x500GB hard disks Identical drives needed for the raid array, and I yet to purchase the 6x500GB drives. This can be easily purchased locally, around Rs. 7000 a unit. Mostly I will be purchasing SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive Samsung...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    6 Removable Hard Disk bays I could not find any local supplier who carries hot-swap hard disk bays in Sri Lanka. So only option was eBAY. SuperSwap 1100 from PROMISE is a single bay unit for SATA hard disks in hot-swap configuration. This fits into 5.25” drive bay and lockable. I ordered 6...
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    Professional NAS storage system (Do It Yourself way)

    High-tower server casing and PSU I had to spend lot of time finding this since nobody carries high-tower casings which can accommodate 6 externally accessible 5.25” bays. eBAY has plenty, but due to the size it would cost lot on shipping which didn’t make the option attractive. Finally I manage...
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