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Building a NAS

I have been building a NAS in my spare time for the last months. I wanted this machine for backing up my other machines, storing movies and TV series for my media center, storing recordings from the TV, etc etc. I could have bought a specific machine for this purpose, but I found more interesting and funny building it on my own. These were the objectives I had in mind when designing the machine:

• A 24/7 machine (running all the day)
• Small
• Quiet
• Low power consumption
• Easily expandable with new disks without losing data
• RAID 5
• Break the TB barrier
• Being able to transfer saturating the Gigabit ethernet port
• With a customized Linux OS

And well, I think that I have been able to get all my objectives. This is my first modding, so I encountered lot of problems. Sure the next time I will do it better.

The following sections are a worklog of how I made this machine. Enjoy it.

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