update on my diy situation below.
as you’ll read in the comments, i temporarily resurrected diy matt and used a hodge podge setup consisting of freenas, a bootable cd-rom, and a usb flash drive to hold the config. i was able to put together a ~1tb raid5 set and share it with smb.
then the power died, and i lost everything. i was able to get it all back with lots of screwing around, but it took awhile.
and now i have a drobo.
So what’s it gonna take to resurrect calls-his-friends-back matt? I suppose I can always ask that in person in two weeks.
i got linux installed on my shadowbox pictureframe. now to configure it!
So when the power goes out on your drobo and it mangles the whole array and there’s no hope of recovery because it’s a proprietary on-disk format, do we get to laugh our collective asses off at you?
I suppose that’s my 3v1l way of saying “Buy a damn UPS!”