The name comes from the cost per month of one gigabyte of redundant storage, including bandwidth, electricity and cooling. OneCentNAS is in production use; this repo provides the code, steps and links to hardware we used or have upgraded to.
Suitable for:
- Long term archiving
- Tens of terrabytes
Design goals:
- Low power
- RAID1 (Redundant)
- Scalable without cost penalty
- Incremental technology upgrades with minimal cost penalty
- Redundant hardware
- Inexpensive to repair
- Drive cooling
- Hot swap