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Build the ultimate DIY network storage machine

Friday, June 26th, 2009 – running time 03:37
Build the ultimate DIY network storage machine using free software, a mix of hard drives and an old PC.

We love a good FreeNAS... who doesn't? A Network Attached Storage box solves a problem lots of folks have: there's never enough space for all your data. Whether your storing documents, digital photos, music, movies or games you'll always need and want more space.

FreeNAS is a great free too for building a NAS... but today's build, LimeTech's unRAID softare adds a nifty twist. If one of your storage drives dies, it can replace the lost data.

All you need is a machine with an Ethernet card that can boot off a USB thumbdrive, and the free free unRAID software.

For a comprehensive list of your hardware options, check out the compatibility list.

For tons of helpful unRAID ideas, tips and tricks, check out: Getting Started with unRAID and unRAID Server Community.

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" Face of the rallying -- any series media collection right heart right well past. That story is the way to go play hard driving your network so every PC gadget happy to -- good. But losing your prices audio video or pictures and hard drive dies. Sox you can drop serious gas and drove all raid five -- we certainly have built yourself raid five sometimes or you -- learn how to build it. -- you DIY data protection it's infinitely expandable that's coming up on today's episode of systm ought to."

" data is on the flash drive that boots from teacher for six megabits a larger drive work hard drives. Only store your stuff your user idea what sets it apart that was how he handles the drive one technology calls it underage. Because it's not really -- rain it's kind of like it. -- for where I don't like it's kinda like it is similar to -- 41 driver is used for parity data only your largest drive. And then it's towards the parity data that allows it to resuscitate other drives are basically replicate recreate another driving a single drive on your machine if it dies but the first thing you -- radio as he hit -- make it go faster it'll."

" Food -- few seconds and you get pages and pages of gibberish as Linux installs. If you're not familiar with him figuring your -- USB thumb drive check the manufacturers. Support pages for information on that and also actually is want to biased we hear ideas on the agreed server installation guides that are highly valuable if you're having issues getting. Giving your thumb drive to boot your machine. So we have pages and pages and pages of stuff as he keeps going up and you get power log in powers that -- name of this machine. The log -- is going to be groups ROT. Brooke and there's no password no trouble cause when -- security folks out here to start hyperventilating with rage. Answer brick tower pound until the pound and -- in this agreed to find out what your IP addresses now you can manually configure IP address -- going into the configuration file for this. On the thumb drive itself. You can assign an IP address in there basically saying noted he CP type in an IP address this case recently ACP and taken I have. -- And you have a we have an IP address one ideal want to take that zero dot ones -- one perfect. Our exclusive look at these screens."

" Up on the monitor right now. This is in on configured on -- machine there are no drives listed nothing exactly it which is -- go to prices don't start because that is going to happen to him good parenting click on it anyway be that could go over on devices devices so. Now which is this device is your parity device is going to be gorgeous drive one drive is bigger than others just pick one of those. The top ones did. And then you're disk one device is going to be your first your data drives in which is basically other -- address such exactly you basically have two additional drives in this case they're all when he might occur when you buy one terabyte drives it click that one on there. And let's go -- back to the means section. And we can go ahead and hits starts. LCDs are we -- out any of the data that's certainly done it well we're going to find out."

" Face of the rallying -- any series media collection right heart right well past. That story is the way to go play hard driving your network so every PC gadget happy to -- good. But losing your prices audio video or pictures and hard drive dies. Sox you can drop serious gas and drove all raid five -- we certainly have built yourself raid five sometimes or you -- learn how to build it. -- you DIY data protection it's infinitely expandable that's coming up on today's episode of systm ought to."

" data is on the flash drive that boots from teacher for six megabits a larger drive work hard drives. Only store your stuff your user idea what sets it apart that was how he handles the drive one technology calls it underage. Because it's not really -- rain it's kind of like it. -- for where I don't like it's kinda like it is similar to -- 41 driver is used for parity data only your largest drive. And then it's towards the parity data that allows it to resuscitate other drives are basically replicate recreate another driving a single drive on your machine if it dies but the first thing you -- radio as he hit -- make it go faster it'll."

" Food -- few seconds and you get pages and pages of gibberish as Linux installs. If you're not familiar with him figuring your -- USB thumb drive check the manufacturers. Support pages for information on that and also actually is want to biased we hear ideas on the agreed server installation guides that are highly valuable if you're having issues getting. Giving your thumb drive to boot your machine. So we have pages and pages and pages of stuff as he keeps going up and you get power log in powers that -- name of this machine. The log -- is going to be groups ROT. Brooke and there's no password no trouble cause when -- security folks out here to start hyperventilating with rage. Answer brick tower pound until the pound and -- in this agreed to find out what your IP addresses now you can manually configure IP address -- going into the configuration file for this. On the thumb drive itself. You can assign an IP address in there basically saying noted he CP type in an IP address this case recently ACP and taken I have. -- And you have a we have an IP address one ideal want to take that zero dot ones -- one perfect. Our exclusive look at these screens."

" Up on the monitor right now. This is in on configured on -- machine there are no drives listed nothing exactly it which is -- go to prices don't start because that is going to happen to him good parenting click on it anyway be that could go over on devices devices so. Now which is this device is your parity device is going to be gorgeous drive one drive is bigger than others just pick one of those. The top ones did. And then you're disk one device is going to be your first your data drives in which is basically other -- address such exactly you basically have two additional drives in this case they're all when he might occur when you buy one terabyte drives it click that one on there. And let's go -- back to the means section. And we can go ahead and hits starts. LCDs are we -- out any of the data that's certainly done it well we're going to find out."