Home made NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/4 Baruch Shpirer <baruch at shpirer.com>:
> 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
>
> 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..
According to research done by google and also in my experience a
normal harddisk (spinner) that has functioned without failures for 3
years will generally last for a very long time....
>
> On Dec 4, 2012 8:36 AM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/12/4 vordoo <vordoo at yahoo.com>:
>> >
>> > On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > Unless you hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That is silent, takes very
>> > little
>> > electricity and can probably do what you want.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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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