Since building and blogging about my first network attached storage (NAS) computer way back in 2012 and then writing all my subsequent DIY NAS build blogs, I’ve tried quite a few different cases when building these machines. Beyond that, I’ve stared at the specifications of countless other models of cases looking for things that fit my criteria: typically something small and can fit at least six 3.5” hard drives.| Butter, What?!
UPDATE: Even though this post is six years old, plenty of folks are still visiting it. I am still using this hardware, but at some point many years …| blog.patshead.com
UPDATE: I used this hardware for two years. It was a fantastic build, and it performed exactly as I expected it to. The AMD 5350 and 5370 processors …| blog.patshead.com
So, you’ve decided that you want to build your own NAS. I bet you’re investigating hard drive prices and your options for RAID levels. At …| blog.patshead.com
I’m not new to the world of Infiniband. I bought a pair of 20-Gigabit Mellanox Infiniband cards in 2016 to connect my desktop PC to my virtual …| blog.patshead.com
It was about eleven years ago when I helped my friend Brian Moses run Ethernet to every room in his house. Once he decided that the router and …| blog.patshead.com