Home made NAS

[Dan Shimshoni]

Hello, Nadav,
> Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for >$160.
>For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-> based server in one package.

What do you mean by "ARM-based server" here ? I don't sure
I understand. Does this product include some tiny ARM server?
Do you have access to this server by telnet/ssh, and is there a BSP
open source package ? I see you have ethernet connection there.
I look in WD site, and I don't see that they mention an ARM
based server there:

http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280


Can you please give a link/elaborate about the product you are talking about ?

rgs
DS

For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based)
server in one package.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS":
>>     I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just
>>     collecting dust.&nbsp; I would like to collect the disks from all of
>>     them, put them together into a single server to act as a file server
>
> A couple of years I started doing something similar to what you are planning.
> I took an old computer, and stuck in it a bunch of hard disks I had from
> previous years - one was 1 terabyte, another 300 gigabyte, and a third
> 80 gigabytes. The computer ran Linux, and served files (mostly CDs and DVDs)
> on my home network with NFS and Samba.
>
> But then I realized how annoying this setup was: the computer was very big,
> noisy, and had to be on all the time. The old disks (especially the 80
> gigabytes) were a joke, and I all three disks summed together were
> smaller than a just new disk I could buy.
>
> Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160.
>
> For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based)
> server in one package. The package is 10 times smaller than my old computer,
> nearly silent, and uses up less electricity, and came preconfigured with
> the server software (it runs Linux, but you don't have direct access to
> it).
>
> 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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