<p>Too many ways to do this but if you consider the data you are going to put on this nas valueable and the hw you are talking about is 2+yrs old then you better off buying new</p>
<p>With old hw you can never be sure its going to come up next time and basicly nothing is promised, but for sure stuff can still work for ever with some miracle and a luck dragon..</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 4, 2012 8:36 AM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <<a href="mailto:esr%2Blinux-il@g.jct.ac.il">esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
2012/12/4 vordoo <<a href="mailto:vordoo@yahoo.com">vordoo@yahoo.com</a>>:<br>
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> On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote:<br>
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>> So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this<br>
>> as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of<br>
>> old equipment is waste of your energy.<br>
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> Unless you hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That is silent, takes very little<br>
> electricity and can probably do what you want.<br>
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> Raspberry Pi takes care only of the CPU/board part not the price -in<br>
> time&money, of inefficiently running a bunch of old H.D's & there<br>
> controllers.<br>
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> In my view the small Raspberry Pi form is less significant in this case,<br>
> though it is the cool thing in town. I would advocate an Arm board more<br>
> similar to the W.D. Book & other designs. In IL, money wise, At less then<br>
> $200 you are probably better-of just baying it of the shelf, unless you need<br>
> the flexibility of your personal design (the education part can be done on a<br>
> VM ;-)<br>
Don't forget you can hack the WD Live, or get to the linux it runs<br>
(debian) and expand it...<br>
(Unless they locked it down more recently)<br>
Regards,<br>
Eliyahu - אליהו<br>
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