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I've been mostly skimming this thread but I don't think anybody has pointed to Amahi: seems like at least software-wise it would cover all the requirements for media storage and add/removal of HDDs. I should mention my favorite forum merely recommends Amahi as a FOSS alternate to WHS but that I have not actually used Amahi.

Also, I thought XFS was supposed to be a good/possibly best file system for large files?

I'm not familiar with any of these other apps listed on here, but why would you have to pay to run a MediaWiki server?
Who are you paying for this?

http://www.amahi.org/tour/apps

Other than that... it looks nice and clean.

Try this, instead:

http://www.amahi.org/

Amahi is a Linux appliance that will run on plug computers or nettops. It rocks for these applications. Like Timecapsule on steroids - cos you can add media streaming servers, whatever.

I like the disk pooling. It's like volume management for all the little drives you have scattered about the house.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/disk-pooling

Yes, it handles backups for Mac, Win and Linux - slicker than the setup in this article.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/backups

Try this, instead:

http://www.amahi.org/

Amahi is a Linux appliance that will run on plug computers or nettops. It rocks for these applications. Like Timecapsule on steroids - cos you can add media streaming servers, whatever.

I like the disk pooling. It's like volume management for all the little drives you have scattered about the house.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/disk-pooling

Yes, it handles backups for Mac, Win and Linux - slicker than the setup in this article.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/backups

Try this, instead:

http://www.amahi.org/

Amahi is a Linux appliance that will run on plug computers or nettops. It rocks for these applications. Like Timecapsule on steroids - cos you can add media streaming servers, whatever.

I like the disk pooling. It's like volume management for all the little drives you have scattered about the house.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/disk-pooling

Yes, it handles backups for Mac, Win and Linux - slicker than the setup in this article.

http://www.amahi.org/tour/backups

-What happens if you lose a disk?
So you look to install raid
-what if all your disks aren't the same size?
and
-what if you want to upgrade just one disk? Or add a new disk? (I know both are possible with the raid-5 tools, but adding new disks takes HOURS, if not DAYS, depending on the size of your array.... not something I'd call usable to a home user)

MS drive extender and Unraid both have a home-user solution that open source does not match right now. I hope this changes soon!

Possibly Greyhole, which can be found in practice in the WHS alternative, Amahi.

If you put a + at the end of a bit.ly url you can see the statistics and where it links to like so..

http://bit.ly/9KFubG+

In this case it's going to: http://blog.amahi.org/2010/08/11/amahi-for-the-marvell-plug-computer-released-get-yours-free/

I like to run mine on the best hAmahi (http://www.amahi.org), on an Atom system with all the power management optimizations on: cpuspeed, no X (headless), disk power management tuned nicely. And also I run it well ventilated.

if you want to repurpose it as a headless server I can heartily recommend Amahi server.
It's basically a file/dns/dhcp/vpn/calendar server and you can easily extend it with some other apps (torrents/newsgroup/wiki/recipes).

Another software option is from http://www.amahi.org/ -- it is targetted at the home market, and aside from giving the shares and setting up OpenVPN out of the box, it also provide a boot from network option so you can backup all the machines on your network (in case they fail too!)