Home made NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com>:
> 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 ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_TV
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wd+live+debian

Basically it's a disk + server to handle cifs/nfs....
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
> 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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