Gentoo or Arch ?

Gentoo all the way, for the flexibility portage gives you, downside is compile time wasted.

My favorite personal project that still works to this day is a 500GB NAS I built out of a broken original Xbox using a pair of 500GB drives in md-RAID1 running Gentoo.

Extremely flexible, rewarding experience to build with a stripped down essentials kernel. Sure it took a long time to come together but 8 years later it still takes updates and runs as well as the day it came online.

@T3hbeowulf
How did you connect the two hds?
To the DVD drive, is the board header standard?

@nbamaral yes we need more info...😆

@FR4NKESTI3N
Ahah, curiosity is killing me.
I'd unbox the 2 xbox if I wasn't so tired :-P

@nbamaral, I removed the DVD drive after the base "install" and ran a standard IDE cable between the HDDs. (master/slave)

Once the initial boot was completed, the long process of compiling everything began.

@nbamaral @FR4NKESTI3N, mdadm let's you add drives in RAID configuration even if one is already partitioned. I created a "broken RAID 1" to get it started and then boxed it up and stuck it on a UPS for the rest of the installation.

@T3hbeowulf
Cool, thanks.
I never thought of using them that way, Linux has the extra advantage of allowing bigger disks, disks over 120g needed chip reflash.
I'll probably do the same, happen to have 2 500g ide disks, a spare xbox, and I'm used to both mdadm and gentoo.

Arch!