I'm putting together a small NAS box for our home network. It would mostly be used to store photos, videos and backups from our laptops. It's an old PC we still had sitting around and which now hopefully can be put to some good use. I'm not much of an expert as far as drives are concerned, so I have a few questions.
Should I go with IDE drives? As I said, the box is a bit older. I read somewhere that you can only attach two devices per IDE controller, and it might just be that the box just has one of those. There is the drive from which it boots (xubuntu, by the way) and then I was thinking about adding two more drives in RAID 1 configuration. But if only two devices can be attached to the controller in total then this wouldn't work, right?
Here is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev c1)Does that look like I have only one IDE controller? There is an IDE bridge and an IDE interface listed...
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c)
01:08.0 Modem: PCTel Inc HSP56 MicroModem (rev 04)
01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
01:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (rev 10)
01:0d.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)
Could I use serial ATA drives? Or SATA even? I assume I need to get a special controller card for that?
Thank you very much...