Home made NAS

[Moish]

On 05/12/2012 12:11, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nadav Har'El                        |      Tuesday, Dec 4 2012, 20 Kislev 5773
>>> nyh at math.technion.ac.il             |-----------------------------------------
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I use WD MyBook Duo 2x3T.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=620
Transfer rate more than enough for HD over N-wireless network.

On A side note:
Above storage is used (among other devices) by two Apple Tv 2 (jb with 
Xbmc) and for fun, I will
add a Raspberry Pi model B which cost me almost 50$ in the USA.  (ATV2 
cost 103$ w/tax)

-- 
Moish