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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Close</b> <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> <snip><br>> I know i just sent an email about Raid, but what is a FreeNAS server?<br><br>FreeNAS is a FreeBSD distribution that is supposed to similar to a
<br>plug and play NAS solution in the fashion that KnoppMyth is a plug and<br>play MythTV solution.<br><br><a href="http://www.freenas.org/">http://www.freenas.org/</a><br>FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting:
<br>CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local<br>user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB<br>configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32MB once installed<br>on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.
<br>The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and<br>documentation are based on M0n0wall.</blockquote>
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<div>I'll go to the site when i get home later. So i can theoretically run this on a thumb drive? with the RAID array serving as just a storage over the network in my house? and mythtv can store to this? And theoretically anything else? (ie can windows write/read to it also?) And with HD recordings, how fast would it need, GiG?
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">i know they're not really 'plug & play', but ...<br>a specialized distro<br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell