Home made NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/4 vordoo <vordoo at yahoo.com>:
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> On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote:
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>> So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this
>> as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of
>> old equipment is waste of your energy.
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> Unless you hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That is silent, takes very little
> electricity and can probably do what you want.
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> Raspberry Pi takes care only of the CPU/board part not the price -in
> time&money, of inefficiently running a bunch of old H.D's & there
> controllers.
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> In my view the small Raspberry Pi form is less significant in this case,
> though it is the cool thing in town. I would advocate an Arm board more
> similar to the W.D. Book & other designs. In IL, money wise, At less then
> $200 you are probably better-of just baying it of the shelf, unless you need
> the flexibility of your personal design (the education part can be done on a
> VM ;-)
Don't forget you can hack the WD Live, or get to the linux it runs
(debian) and expand it...
(Unless they locked it down more recently)
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
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