Monthly Archives: October 2009
New FreeBSD Foundation Project: HAST
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that is funding a new funded project: HAST “Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations … Continue reading
QNAP TS-110 Turbo NAS Server
After the four-bay TS-410 and dual-bay TS-210, QNAP introduces the single bay TS-110 Turbo NAS server for home and SOHO users. The device has one 3.5-inch SATA hard drive bay support up to 2TB of storage capacity. QNAP expanded its … Continue reading
How to buy Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage
You’ve heard so much about NAS systems, you know how useful they are, and you want one. There are so many companies building them, there are so many options. Where do you start? PC Magazine has some useful tips. Things to … Continue reading
Thecus announces N7700PRO, advanced NAS storage
Thecus announced a 10GbE Ready, 7-Bay Power Storage Server: the Thecus N7700PRO Inside the seven-bay tower resides an Intel Core 2 Duo and 4GB of DDR2 800 memory, but there’s more – namely a PCIe slot that, when equipped with … Continue reading
Sun Microsystems’ new storage arrays (F5100 Flash Array)
Sun Microsystems has unveiled new integrated Flash arrays, promising to increase database performance by up to 10 times while reducing operating costs. The company describes the Storage F5100 Flash Array as a “significant leap forward in the industry”, claiming to … Continue reading
FreeNAS as a Print Server
“FreeNAS is an excellent network storage solution simple enough for anyone to install. The system and space requirements are ridiculously small for this stripped-down version of FreeBSD. It’s got all manner of features accessible through it’s clean web GUI, more … Continue reading
How you can build a media NAS for next to nothing…or even less
“If you have an old PC sitting around it’s surprisingly easy to create a NAS (Network Attached Storage) repository for your media. In this article, I’ll tell you how you can make one for next to nothing…or even less. If … Continue reading
VortexBox (media) NAS
VortexBox is a free, open source, quick install Linux distribution that turns your unused computer into an easy to use music server/jukebox. Based on Fedora 10, VortexBox is capable of streaming in multiple formats allowing you to hear your music … Continue reading
iXsystems introduces iX-N4224 Orion Server Series (ZFS)
iXsystems has introduced the iX-N4224 Orion Server Series, designed for storage-intensive applications, ZFS implementations, and virtualization, iX-N4224 Orion servers offer up to 48 terabytes of storage with 24 hot-swappable SAS/SATA drive bays in a 4U configuration. The iX-N4224 is expandable … Continue reading
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
This setup need lots of inexpensive but reliable storage space. Check out this “open source” engineering: https://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage.html Touted by ZDNet saying, “Raw disk cost is only 5-10% of an enterprise RAID system’s cost. The rest goes for corporate jets, sales … Continue reading
