I don't know about Unity hardware, but it is fairly straightforward to
build a NAS on an old system by installing Linux and using mdadm to
implement the RAID, and samba for the server.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@...> wrote:
>
> Not worth it. I needed a NAS 6 months ago & thought about
> re-purposing my old Terrablock or my old Unity LANshare. But after a
> bit of research I bought a little NAS box (Netgear ReadyNAS) for under
> $1000, stuffed it with six 3TB Hitachi Deskstars, and it's been
> running like a champ. It's small, quiet, and simple to manage. Save
> yourself the bother, just buy a NAS off the shelf.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Christopher Lowden
> christopher@... wrote:
> I have old unitys that have served great cause of editing for many
> years and are no longer covered by avid. I have to decommission them,
> and I would like them to have a second life as intranet servers. But I
> know that the Avid disks etc are non standard. So I was wondering how
> to render these very useful boxes into simple SAN / NAS where I can
> put off the shelf disks in, not the avid ones. Any thoughts are most
> welcome.
>
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