Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

[Dotan Cohen]

Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed
for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin
them down.


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available...
> Intel Atom boards
> AMD E-series
> ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more)
> So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area
> of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you
> would get that low a peak usage with more then 2 disks since the avg.
> usage of a disk is about 10W, though that may have improved by now...)
>
> And yes, RAID 6, 1, 10 or RAIDZ should be what you look at....
>
> Regards,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
>
>
> 2013/10/7 vordoo <vordoo at yahoo.com>:
>>
>> DO NOT USE RAID 5, Go for 1, 6, or 10 :
>> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
>>
>>> use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your
>>> files private if you want)...
>> Marked or not, if you flickr privet it will not be anymore. Which may be OK
>> as long as you know.
>>
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