Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/10/7 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> 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.
Well that depends on the firmware/OS and the optimizations you add...
In prebuilt stuff I would also expect it, in self built stuff it
depends 100% on you.
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> 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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