Archive for January, 2010
Finally NAS
After some long searching I found the best solution to reactivate old HP’s Vectra e-pc (PIII 866MHz 256MB). As a standard one disk PC it is nothing special, but because of usage power supply as notebook it was perfect for home server. I changed fan. I was tryiing with astlinux on CF, but there is kind of bug that after long time system stucks.
I tried also 5GB hard drive with CF interface (is it Microdrive?) with Centos 5 and Asterisk for my VoIP. It died too.
It is better to separate home file server from home ip-pbx.
I visited freenas.org for curiosity and realised that there has been prepared FreeNAS distro for flash. Easy, friendly and works fine. It is perfect for small, quiet, home NAS. That e-pc can work only with 2 PATA drives and I use both one for 2.5″ 60GB drive and IDE-CF flash drive with FreeNAS.
If this configuration will be OK as home server I will try another useful ideas:
- system booted from USB – even version 1.1 will be enough
- another real hard disk – maybe 3.5″ 500MB or more – big question regarding generated noise
- print server – should be easy
- UPnP server for my Samsung DLNA compatible LCD TV
All that looks promising with read/write throughput between 48Mb/s and 64Mb/s on 100Mb/s LAN. In my opinion good enough for test before going to 1Gb LAN to transport HD movies.
New Year test ride
I decided to ride my bike today. It was snowing all night long, so it was perfect time to test my still not used winter tires with metal spikes.
Because of snow – fluff snow, I didn’t notice any difference to standard tires. The best control is during riding through frozen hard ice.
By the way I was not riding my treking bike by MTB – Radon ZR Team.
