Hi, was looking at giving OpenMediaVault a try. I currently have a Nas4Free setup that boots of a thumb drive and contains 6 different hd's. It is on an old system I had around. The motherboard has 2 sata connections and i have a 2 and 1.5 tb hd connected to them. I also have 1 tb and 750 sata drives using a sata to ide covertor. also a 750 and 500 connected to the other ide slots. the processor is pen4 2.0 and 1.5 gb of ram. The mb has a gb nic and it is connected to a gb switch that also has my daily computer connected via gb also.
The transfer speeds seem slow and when i browse the nas it takes a while to display every thing. (I know it would probably help if I got a different system with more sata connectors and drives) Will OpenMediaVault speed this up? I have read some and it looks like having OpenMedia boot off a thumb drive is not the best solution.
As all my drive connectors are full currently can I use an ext. hd connected via the usb as a boot drive? (this would be connected internally to one of the mb usb connectors
Also is it possible with all the different drives I have to make one volume like nas4free does? What is the best file system to accomplish that if possible?
Thanks for any input!!