Recent content by Visor57

Thank you for all the feedback so far, although a bit off topic ;) My main interest at this point is how these coolers cope with the thermal burden from a Pentium D processor, as this rates as probably one of the hottest damn cpu's I've personally come across with a cooler attached! I knew...

Hehe, I didn't even notice the weight until you pointed it out. The Gigabyte 3D Rocket that I have now is also an effective heatpipe design, but honestly I'm not very fond of the entire heatpipe trend. I recently worked on an HP Proliant and one of the processors (Xeon) kept overheating with...

Hi there :) I'm a somewhat warm user of a Pentium D 3GHz processor and I'd really like to know if anyone has had good results with the [new] Thermaltake Blue Orb II cooler? So far the only reviews I can find use AMDs for the test cpu, but their temps are nowhere near as hectic as the Pentium...

In addition as a future upgrade one could always add a low profile 4-port Serial ATA RAID controller from e.g. Promise (FastTrak TX4200) and use 3 SATA drives (can't fit in more :() in RAID-5 mode (Linux) too :D That particular controller doesn't appear on the NAS OS HCL yet but should soon...

The concern regarding the integrated hardware RAID did cross my mind and it may just be a better idea to revert to a cheaper 865G chipset based board using the Linux software RAID. Let's face it, cost is a concern and the main reason for attempting this in the first place :) Reverting to 865...

Wow! Now that's cramming a whole lot into a very tight space :D At the moment I'm cosidering the Shuttle SB75G2 which utilizes the Intel 875P chipset and supports SATA RAID 0 and 1, has IDE ports and Gigabit LAN. I'm waiting to hear from Darma if the NAS OS supports Intel's Hyper-Threading...

Hi drag, Thanx for the info :) So far I've decided to try an approach that Open-E uses; install a compact NAS OS on an IDE Flash Drive. NAS OS's I've found so far: NASLite by Server Elements, Darma NAS OS by Darma Computers. NASLite is nifty but has a couple of cons I don't like...

Checked out Webmin and it looks promising. I have Red Hat 9 so I'll try it out this weekend on a test machine and see how it goes.

Thanks for the response drag :) Yes,sorry :o, I did mean RAID-1 (corrected above post). NAS stands for "Network Attached Storage" and that's basically all I want; a very compact, reliable file server that just plugs into the network and takes good care of my data and archived apps :) One...

Hi there :) I want to build a NAS Appliance for personal use but can't seem to find a relatively easy solution. I'm an IT Professional so getting down and dirty isn't a problem for me, I just don't want to waste time barking up the wrong trees and the sort. I've been thinking of using a...