Home made NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/5 Geoffrey S. Mendelson <geoffreymendelson at gmail.com>:
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
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>> All of the above is probably negligible compared to two important
>> arguments that have already been mentioned: 1) as a home appliance
>> there are better, more economical, and - most importantly! - quieter
>> solutions for a modest price; 2) tinkering with such a heterogeneous
>> system will yield invaluable experience, especially in terms of never
>> trying anything like this for anything important.
>>
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> I want to point out that disk failure statistics may be less useful than one
> would think. The majority of hard disks came from a factory in Thailand
> which was wiped out by a flood about 2-3 years ago.
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> This caused a large rise in the price of disks, and the reamining
> manufacturers scrambling to produce more disks from existing factories at
> lower prices.
>
> The price of hard disks has yet to be as low as it was.
>
> Since those "new" disks have not been around long enough for long term
> failure statistics, I would be careful using the old ones.
>
> BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several
> professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork
> of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's.
If we're going off on fs tangents, has anyone here started playing
with btrfs yet? As far as I understand it supposed to be pretty stable
by now but so far I am still sticking to ext4....
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
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> Geoff.
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> Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
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