Home made NAS

Home made NAS

Udi Finkelstein Linux-IL at udif.com
Wed Dec 5 13:27:45 IST 2012


http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31314-wd-my-book-live-reviewed
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/mybook-live

It has a 1GHz ARM and 256MB of RAM (No USB though).

Udi

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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