NASLite Network Attached Storage

My NAS box consists of the following hardware:

300 watt PSU

ECS P5SS-Me Motherboard

AMD Socket 7 K6/2 333 Processor

Generic 256Mb PC133 SDRAM

Netgear GA311 Gigabit network card

Seagate 7200 400GB Hard drive

Sony Cd Rom

Sony Floppy Drive

CPU overheating alarm (Maplins)

No hardware problems other than overheating because of me siting NAS box in my loft,:cry: moved it into my garage and it has run without a blip for nearly 4 weeks

Access is fast across the whole network and I stream video cleanly and smoothly through my xbox.

My Hardware.

1st nas server

KT7A Abit Motherboard V1.2 Raid (not enabled)
800 Duron Cpu
256MB Curcial Ram CL2
ATI Rage 128 Gfx Card
FA311 Netgear Card
2 x 80 Maxtor HD's
Sony 48 CDRW rom drive
Sony Floppy Drive

2nd Nas

A7S8X-MX OnBoard Sound GFX and network card.
800 Duron Cpu
256 Generic Ram DDR
2x200 Maxtor HD's
LG 52x CDrom drive
Sony Floppy Drive

Both these hardware setups work and have had no issues with the hardware with Naslite+

My Terabyteserver works fine

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Naslite1:
Dell GX1 PIII 600mhz
384 MB Sdram
4 - 20g hard drives for testing
Onboard 3com nic worked but was slow at transferring files. Put in a D-link PCI NIC and big improvement.

My NASLite (not +) is an old Metabox (Settop for Internet on TV).
It was a 22 Euro (26USD) catch after the company collapsed (new market soap bubble story)

It has a Cyrix 486 at 300 MHz, 64MB Ram, a 160 GB HD (which did NOT come with it at 22 Euro!) and a stupid (apologize) floppy drive which it uses only for bootup. It has no display and no keyboard. It draws 26 Watts (measured) from the power outlet.

The network card is a Gb one, because the Mb version of NAS-Lite comes without DMA and network throughput is below 1 MB/s, now it is above 3 MB/s.

I would prefer to use Naslite+, but naturally this board is not USB-bootable.

Except from the need to replace the bootdisk every 4 weeks or so (floppies tend to wear) no problems at all.

Couldn't you attach a cd drive to the ide cable and run NAslite+? You don't need a USB bootable board for NASlite+ only NASlite+ for USB Flash. I'm not familiar with the set top box so maybe you can't attach a cd but all you need to run NASlite+ is a cd drive for booting and the floppy drive for storing the config files.

I would like to get rid of the stupid (apologize) floppydrive.
So if the board could boot from USB then I would use +, thats how I meant it.

My system:

Unbranded Motherboard

200w PSU

Intel P2 400Mhz

96Mb RAM

4Gb HD

20Gb HD

Unbranded NIC (£2 brand new)

Uptime: 37 days and counting

HP 6730 Pavillion

4 WD 250G drives
Generic LAN Card

Removed CDRom Stock HDD and additional PCI Cards.

My setup is as follows:
Compaq 4000 series 233mhz processor
64mmb RAM
200gb HDD- it only shows 186.9GB avaiable when empty and formated many times with NASlite+.
Nic card-dont know the brand. :-\

if anyone can help tell me as to why the computers accessing the server runs "slower" only wen accessing the files, that would be greatly appreciated.

My NAS Lite box is a Pentium 200 mhz, 64 mb ram, 2 10GB drives. The second one is even better a Dell Optiplex that i found in the trash with a Celeron 566 mhz processor and 128mb ram with a 40GB drive. I use it for storing family pictures and for data backup.

My NASLite+ Hardware is as follows:

Operating System

Linux 2.4.27.NASLite #8 Sat Jan 1 11:12:55 MST 2005 i586


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Uptime
00:00:02 up 2:46, load average: 0.39, 0.49, 0.35


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Processor (CPU)
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
cpu MHz : 314.604
cache size : 64 KB
bogomips : 627.50


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Memory
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 192100 188392 3708 0 6236


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Disks
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Device
System 3.9M 3.4M 505.0k 87% RAM Disk
Storage Area 183.4G 29.1G 154.3G 16% NAS Disk-1


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Network Interface
RealTek RTL8139 at 0xcc800f00, 00:c0:49:f4:04:f2, IRQ 11
Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:49:F4:04:F2
inet addr:192.168.1.166 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28232440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:14422442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2598373848 (2.4 GiB) TX bytes:935524748 (892.1 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf00

My NAS setup - that was up and running in an amazingly short time.

rescued from the bin Compaq desktop pc
Celeron 400
192mb Ram
2 * 160 GB Maxtor 7200rpm drives (forget the exact model)
Integrated GFX
No name CD-ROM & Floppy
Intel 100Mb Network card.

Only problem i have is the stupid Compaq bios refuses to recognise the drives correctly, and you Cannot disable the IDE auto detect! - so evertime i reboot the NAS i need to hit F1 to boot.. NASLite+ recognises the drives perfectly. but the NAS has not needed rebooting in weeks, so hardly a big problem.

All connected to a Wireless Linksys Router.. Copied 100GB of files over to NAS via SMB in one go with no problems (vids, music, pics)

Copy speed to NAS seems very good considering old hardware.

Very tidy & clever piece of software.

IBM 300PL 6565-xxx with Segate 300Gb drive + 100Mbit NIC

I was surprised how fast it runs on my network!

I'm thinking of replacing the 100Mbit NIC with a 1Gbit NIC. Any potential problems that you can forsee??? BTW I do have a Gbit network.

Operating System

Linux 2.4.26.NASLite #10 Mon Jun 14 14:07:53 MDT 2004 i686

Uptime

16:15:01 up 2:02, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Processor (CPU)

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
cpu MHz : 596.003
cache size : 256 KB
bogomips : 1189.47

Memory

total used free shared buffers
Mem: 127624 17216 110408 0 216

Disks

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Device
System 3.9M 2.4M 1.5M 61% RAM Disk
Storage Area 275.1 44.4G 230.7G 16% NAS Disk-1

Network Interface

e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:29:99:F7:66
inet addr:192.168.0.108 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1638955 (1.5 MiB) TX bytes:8526 (8.3 KiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x74c0 Memory:fe9ff000-fe9ff038