I've had a couple of questions on what I'm doing and if this multi-TB server is a commercial product... So I'm posting the response to the list.
I'm still working hard at OLPC. My @laptop.org address isn't on the linuxbios list.
The fileserver project is personal.
- I've got a large amount of old LP albums that I'm going to digitize to 96k 24-bit, do scratch removal, and then encode to flac, mp3, and ogg.
- I've got a whole butload of stuff on old hard drives and sorts of different media and no longer a big 3000 sqft home to store it all in. (Moving to Boston really showed me how much crap I had). I tire of having to find a machine or a USB->IDE dongle to prowl whats on the old HD.
- A few big ass boxes of CD's that need ripped.
- Interest in setting up a some nodes of some of the distributed peer-to-per cluster type storage stuff I see. For save it to the mesh and it never goes away type thing.
Basically to start heading toward some sort of setup where I can archive/cache all my data in one place and then index it.
Rather than your average NAS plus a server to drive it I was thinking I would use LB and a SATA mother board to roll it all together.
So searching for motherboards that have >= 4 SATA ports and LinuxBios support I was quite happy to find the GA-M57LSI.
Working with current 1TB disks and soft-RAID5 I should be able to scale this up to 5 TB.