On Sunday 08 Aug 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I was thinking about this recently and wondered about something like a > Sheevaplug with Ethernet and a hard drive in a USB caddy. The Ethernet > for connecting to the ADSL router it's sitting next to. It may not be > fast, including the USB hard drive access, but I only want to rsync over > ssh to it once a day and I'm not sitting there waiting for it to finish. > > It shouldn't consume much power but for bonus points perhaps the local > job could power it off remotely when finished. If it was plugged into a > 24-hour timer switch then that could also turn off at a fixed time and > turn on again the next day ready for the next upload. A remote human > could always switch to always-on if I wanted.
Of course it's not so much fun, but my Netgear Stora (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002SNBCSQ/ref=oss_product) probably works out cheaper. By the time you've bought the Sheevaplug, the hard drive and the USB caddy, there wouldn't be much change from the £108 the Stora is selling for today. Of course there are down sides but I reviewed my box on the website recently if you're interested (no link; the server seems to be down). -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
