
For the few last day I’ve been working on a project to turn a Zonbu machine into a NAT Server for home and small business settings.
The Zonbu machine is a small diskless computer, with 512MB of ram, and six USB2 ports, sold by Zonbu, Inc. for only $99. For that price and the addition of a few external disks, you can make a nice little NAS Server, to store, and share your videos, music, and important documents.
The NAS appliance I am building is based on the latest FreeBSD version FreeBSD-7.0. I am planning to use ZFS for volume management. That will allow the user to configure their disk with any kind of RAID, from RAID 0 to RAID 5. You will be able to share these disks on the net with any computer from Unix to Windows.
I haven’t completely definitively defined all the features this home sever will offer yet. I guess I’ll define them ad the project advances and I get feedback.
The geeks who are interested in this project can view the configuration for the kernel I am using to boot my Zonbu machine.