I voted Yes, but only because I dont see anything wrong with the NDA. Longer term NDAs are more common in my industry now. But I dont think this should be a poll, this should be up to your lawyer if the risk are out weighed by the reward.
Long story short I am trying to run 3-4 mobos off of a single power supply (Intel Avaton C2550s so not very much power draw) They will be ESXi nodes for my traveling test lab.
I would really like to be able to reboot them individually if needed without disturbing the other 2-3 boards. But I...
Follow any of Gea's guides, if you aren't doing an all in one just skip the VM part
Its basically:
Install Openindiana or OmniOS
Install Napp-it
log into napp-it web gui
initialize disks and create a pool
Create the Share type you want (SMB/NFS/AFP) and the security settings
Boom NAS
mind sharing cad files for it if you arent going to manu them? maybe a "how to" guide of materials and what you need done?
are waterjet tolerances tight enough for the cutting?
Basically I need to upgrade my 1366 setup.
I have been planning on buying a new setup 32GB RAM+4770k+ (something like) Asrock extreme6. To give you an idea of what I am looking at.
I don't mind stepping back to 1155 as there is no real perf advantage I see.
needs to be a K series i7...
I run one into my ESXi all in one, OI/napp-it with a pass-through HBA. I have a local and cloud backup to be safe, but haven't seen any issues so far.
I currently have 8 WD 1TB blacks in it, my #5 (or #4 if you start with 0) slot is weird to seat (left to right, top to bottom) and the power...
If it were me starting all over again I would look at what this guy has done:
http://thehomeserverblog.com/ (look at his setup and the $500 build in the pop posts on the right)
basically an all in one box that you could expand as needs arise
If not I would look at something like a Synology...