Retro Computers

Here it is – the Nintendo NAS! (NAS = Network Attached Storage)

The Nintendo NAS contains the following hardware.

• CV860A Motherboard with onboard Via Eden C3 at 800Mhz
• 512 Mb RAM
• 400Gb 3.5″ IDE Hard disk.
• 3 * 100MB Lan connections

The LEDs on the front panel indicate power, disk activity and LAN activity. The power button turns the NAS on (funny that!) The reset button is not connected.

I’ve not put a CDROM drive inside the unit that utilises the cartridge flap on the front. Ive mounted the hard drive behind it instead.

This is the back of the NAS. Its not the best dremmel work, but it will do for now. I’m planning to tidy it up a bit in the future. Im sure a piece of fine sandpaper would do the trick.

This picture shows the inside of the NAS.

The plan was to install FreeNAS, but I’ve now decided to put Ubuntu server on instead. I can then put a Apache web server installation on it and publish its website to the internet. I will put a guest book system on it, so visitors can sigh the log. Keep an eye on http://nintendonas.retrocomputers.eu . I should have the site live by the new year.

Website is now live off line. Take a look at http://nintendonas.retrocomputers.eu

Over the next day or two, I will be uploading photos are information about my new Nintendo NAS. Watch this space…

My post about my Apple LCIII NAS has been updated with photos and hard disk changes. Links to the photo gallery have also been corrected.

http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-apple-lciii-nas/

Hard disk has failed in my NAS. Im not happy, luckily i’ve not lost any data as its all backed up!

I don’t have any spare IDE disks to put in it, apart from a 20Gb drive, which isnt enough. But I do have 2 SATA drives spare. Unfortunately, the system board in the NAS does not have a SATA port. I do have a IDE/SATA adapter but its too big to put in the NAS case.

Will need to source a disk…

Ive done another conversion! Ive taken my old (and slightly iffy) Apple Mac LCIII and made it into a NAS!

Photos can be found here.

It now has a 400Gb hard disk (It did have a 250Gb drive until it died…). The software running on the system is FreeNAS. It serves files via SMB for my Windows clients and NFS for my unix boxes. It can also stream media files via uPNP and iTunes etc.

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