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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    OK, I went ahead and splurged and got two 1 TB drives (driving past Fry's on the way home from work has it's benefits!) and installed everything this evening. I'm using rsync to pull files from my old server now, everything looks really smooth! Thanks for the great guide!
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    Thanks. I have been reading a bit about the RAID management process. I guess I'll have to become an expert before I jump into it! It appears that you cannot start with a single drive then convert to RAID without reformatting. But the process of replacing a failed drive and having it...
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    I ended up sticking a CF card in there, and it installed without a problem. I have an additional question about setting up the RAID. It appears from your walkthrough in the previous article that when you set up a RAID array, it wants to reformat both drives during the setup. If I set up a...
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    So, you are able to boot from a USB flash drive inserted into one of the USB ports? I couldn't get it to do that. I wonder if some USB flash drives are not capable? I seem to have read something that indicated older drives might not be bootable, but I don't know for sure.
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    I tried installing to an SD card tonight. I first wanted to installed OFF of an USB stick, so I used UNetbootin to installed the Ubuntu Server ISO to the USB stick. Well, the Wind will apparently NOT boot from a USB stick. Next, I wanted to try UNetbootin to install the ISO to an SD...
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    Intel Atom vs. VIA C7: Which Makes a Faster, Cheaper NAS?

    Tim, thanks for the great resource here... With the newer Ubuntu Server version, did it recognize the onboard network hardware, or did you use the separate card? I have seen where people have used CF cards as the install target and you used a USB flash drive here. Can an SD card be...
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