[darkpuppet]

NOS2Go4Me,Apr 22 2009, 12:00 PM Wrote:Are you using the Kingwin enclosure that takes up 3 5.25" bays?

Does the FreeNAS distro support your PS3? A lot of guys are raving about it.

I've got two 4-port, RAID-capable SATA host adapters on my motherboard. I was going to use that Kingwin enclosure for the Silicon Image Sil3114 adapter and re-configure from a small RAID-1 to the same thing - a very large RAID-5.
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Yup, I'm starting with the Kingwin enclosure... and the motherboard will have 4 eSATA ports as well for another external RAID enclosure or two down the road.

I'm sort of torn between using freeNAS or using Ubuntu and configuring fuppes and all that stuff myself (fuppes appears to work rather well through the PS3). I may test with freeNAS first and see -- I've heard complaints about playback of .vob and other large-sized files, but we'll see.

The documentation for freeNAS is a bit light too. If the web interface proves useless, I'll drop it and put in Ubuntu. I have an 80Gb boot drive that I'll be using for the OS, so it's not like I'm tight on space.

I'm interested to see how the software NAS stacks up with the 2 PCIe controller cards and a single core 3GHz processor. Hopefully it won't choke when transcoding media from the RAID 5 array.