Raspberry Pis make very slow NAS drives as both the HDD and Ethernet port are on the same USB bus.
I quite like using the HP microserver as a nas, takes up to 5 HDD (4 in easy to remove caddies) fairly low power conspired to most desktop PCs, very compact and very cheap, normally about £100-200. On 31 Jan 2014 07:08, "Owain Clarke" <simb...@cooptel.net> wrote: > > On 30/01/14 22:07, Ian Park wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> >> >> Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone tried using a Raspberry Pi with > connected hard drive? How would this compare for power consumption? > > Owain > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- >
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