Teraqube was originally inspired by Shon's Gigaqube project, but there was one flaw with his idea. If you have a machine with a 160GB drive that contains the OS and a load of data, it's slightly inconvenient if you need to re-install the OS for any reason. The idea behind the Teraqube was to add a smaller third drive purely for the OS. Any data on the storage drives would remain intact after a re-install and could simply be re-mounted.

Of course, this begs the question - "How on earth is this all going to fit into the Cobalt Qube?" Easy, there is already more than enough space for two 3.5" drives, so fitting an additional 2.5" unit shouldn't be too much of a problem. A spare PCI slot allows the fitment of a Promise IDE controller card to give the extra channel needed. Even with all these extras fitted, the Teraqube still runs remarkably cool, the only other extra required was a larger PSU to supply the unit.

So, we have a compact server, but what about the operating system? Enter NetBSD. For a start it's free, and will run on just about anything, including a toaster! Not to mention the massive user base, support forums and of course the superb 1.6.1 Restore CD created by Dennis Chernoivanov, which really takes the pain out of installing NetBSD on the Qube.

Click on the menu links to see how it was done, and before long you can have a small, stable server that you can use for just about anything, and "Of course it runs NetBSD"

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