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NAS

Wednesday, 15th Dec 2010 Posted @ 09:07

I have an ancient Maxtor MaxAttach 4300 NAS box. Details about it can be seen here
It has a Pentium III 866Mhz and 384Mb RAM installed and also has an Intel GigE card installed in the PCI slot.
Before I could use it I upgraded the BIOS to the standard one, as the
supplied Maxtor one kept rebooting due to watchdog timeouts.
It came with no hard disks but now sports:
Primary Master: 200Gb
Primary Slave: 200Gb
Secondary Master: 500Gb
Secondary Slave: 500Gb
FreeNAS installed successfully and has NFS shares configured as:
/mnt/disk0 - 186Gb
/mnt/disk1 - 1.1Tb (JBOD RAID)
Did some iperf testing and saw an average of over 400mbps/s - essentially limited by the CPU of the NAS box (a P3-866 just cant fill up a GigE link!)
I think I shall swap out one of the 200Gbs for another 500Gb and change to a RAID0 stripe giving me a 1.5Tb drive shared amongst the three servers in my farm.
Imight backup one of the machines to the NAS, install ESXi onto it and run the original image from the NFS share - sweet :)

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