<div dir="ltr">A few years ago I was very disappointed when I bought a WD My Book and found<br>out that it was only able to do 3MB a sec max - real bummer.<br><br>Josh<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il" target="_blank">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Dec 04, <a href="tel:2012" value="+9722012">2012</a>, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS":<br>
<div class="im">> I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just<br>
</div>> collecting dust.&nbsp; I would like to collect the disks from all of<br>
<div class="im">> them, put them together into a single server to act as a file server<br>
<br>
</div>A couple of years I started doing something similar to what you are planning.<br>
I took an old computer, and stuck in it a bunch of hard disks I had from<br>
previous years - one was 1 terabyte, another 300 gigabyte, and a third<br>
80 gigabytes. The computer ran Linux, and served files (mostly CDs and DVDs)<br>
on my home network with NFS and Samba.<br>
<br>
But then I realized how annoying this setup was: the computer was very big,<br>
noisy, and had to be on all the time. The old disks (especially the 80<br>
gigabytes) were a joke, and I all three disks summed together were<br>
smaller than a just new disk I could buy.<br>
<br>
Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160.<br>
<br>
For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based)<br>
server in one package. The package is 10 times smaller than my old computer,<br>
nearly silent, and uses up less electricity, and came preconfigured with<br>
the server software (it runs Linux, but you don't have direct access to<br>
it).<br>
<br>
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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