On 30/01/14 18:51, Ally Biggs wrote:
Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get Freenas on
there.
I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was happily chugging
along serving up files for over 2 years.
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On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, "john" <j...@jesoftware.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
I abandoned NAS a long time ago as cost in-efficient.
The way I go now is to use a SATA drive caddy - cost £12 to £20 and use
Samba.
Hard disk size. Your choice.
the following will detect and mount the drive caddy disk.
#!/bin/bash
ls /dev/sd?
for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
do
echo "- - -" >> $i
done
/sbin/sfdisk -s
ls /dev/sd?
The first line of output is what is already mounted
The second line will give you what is mounted plus the new hard disk
The following will unmount the disk when changing it.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# != 1 ]; then
echo "Synopsis: stopsata.sh <drive>"
exit 1
fi
export DRIVE=$1
for i in $(mount | grep ${DRIVE} | awk '{print $1}'); do
echo Unmounting $i
umount $i
done
echo Powering down ${DRIVE}
echo 1 >> /sys/block/${DRIVE}/device/delete
echo You may now safely disconnect the drive
example: sudo ./stopsata.sh sdc
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:33:31 +0000
DAWE C <the-labyri...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
I would like a NAS at home, on which I can store lots of files and
have them accessible from both Limux and Widnows. (I am trying to
avoid the mistake I made w few years ago, when I got a network disc
which needed a driver to access, so was only available from certain
versions of Widnows!).
Any recommendations from people?
Chris
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Yes, for a while I went down the road of sticking some drives in an old
PC and running a Debian server installation; however the NAS has the
dual advantage of being a lot more compact than even a low-profile
desktop case (which you'd be pushed to get a couple of hard drives in),
ans much lower power consumption (significant if you're going to keep it
running most of the time).
Ian
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