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Originally Posted by Phoenix32
While my last message was coming from a bit irritated point of view (slamming the great people that are/were on this forum), this message is a genuine question. I do not mean to question you personaly or piss anyone off, but I do have a question I have to ask to make this make sense to me and maybe others.
Why? Beyond just the fun of doing some hardware hacking?
Why not a Guardian OS unit and an expansion like a Snap Disk 10 if you want more than 4 drives, or a Snap Disk 30 or S50 if you want more than 8 (or 12 if you use two Snap Disk 10s)?
If you you have to have SATA, then doing the SATA mod is easy enough, or there is always the 410, 520, and the Snap Disk 30 and S50 are already SATA. These units can be purchased fairly inexpensive these days.
Like I aid, I am NOT trying to offend you, I swear. Maybe I am just dense, but I somewhere missed the whole point of it all. The snaps I just mentioned would do everything you stated you wanted, except maybe to not use GOS. But, since GOS is by far the best file server OS going, it is hard to beat. I am just confused a little bit, please explain.
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Part of the reason was price. I knew I could pick up some parts inexpensively (and re-use others I already had) to build a home server. Part of it was having something I'd built and understood better than an off-the-shelf box that used proprietary assemblies. I also wanted to use an open-source software solution that didn't require costly upgrades. I'd had a chance (I thought) to acquire an 18000 around the beginning of the project but that fell through; now I read that the newest GOS won't work because the hardware is too "old." There's probably no reason the software wouldn't work, they've probably just left device support out of the OS build. With an open-source package those things can be separately added back if they're removed.
THe last part is simply to show people what's possible if they take an old, "outdated" unit and perform some old-fashioned hacking work to extend its life. These things are showing up in surplus stores now, cheap, just because they use an outmoded storage technology. Why scrap them if you can still use them?
No offense taken. For you such an undertaking might not be interesting, given your experience with the Snap platform already. Nothing wrong with that. But others who are starting out might find the project challenging on an intellectual and capabilities-level. I know I did.