4.5 TB NAS build Part 1

Finally, I got a chance to work on my NAS build, since I’ve been on vacation for all of last week.  The goal I was shooting for was to build at least 4TB of RAID 5 storage, with at least a gigabit network connection.  Since I already have a 2 TB IDE-based NAS built on a Poweredge 2400 platform, and since I have a bunch of PE 2400 sitting around, I decided to go ahead and build another NAS out of one of them.

The Poweredge 2400 has several nice features

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Ebay Book Overload

Yikes.  I really really seem to have an Ebay buying addiction.  Sigh.  I could try to rationalize it, but I’m sure there isn’t really a rational reason.  I just like to find things and buy them.  Oh well, moving on to the actual post…

So, I decide that I wanted some books for my birthday this year.  I forget at this point what actually triggered it, though I do know I ended up with a set of  Will and Ariel Durant‘s \”The Story of Civilization\” and Matthew Henry‘s Commentary on the Bible.  Very nice books, and quite glad to have them.  The next purchase was a set of 64 books from

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