On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 01:37:35PM +0200, Mord Behar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS": > > > I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just > > > collecting dust. I would like to collect the disks from all of > > > them, put them together into a single server to act as a file server > > > > A couple of years I started doing something similar to what you are > > planning. > > I took an old computer, and stuck in it a bunch of hard disks I had from > > previous years - one was 1 terabyte, another 300 gigabyte, and a third > > 80 gigabytes. The computer ran Linux, and served files (mostly CDs and > > DVDs) > > on my home network with NFS and Samba. > > > > But then I realized how annoying this setup was: the computer was very big, > > noisy, and had to be on all the time. The old disks (especially the 80 > > gigabytes) were a joke, and I all three disks summed together were > > smaller than a just new disk I could buy. > > > > Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160. > > > > For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based) > > server in one package. The package is 10 times smaller than my old > > computer, > > nearly silent, and uses up less electricity, and came preconfigured with > > the server software (it runs Linux, but you don't have direct access to > > it). > > > > So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this > > as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of > > old equipment is waste of your energy. > > > > Unless you hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That is silent, takes very > little electricity and can probably do what you want.
A Raspberry Pi is relatively cheap, but is certainly not the only small device around. http://linux-sunxi.org/Mele_A1000 Includes a SATA adapter and a disk enclosure (you'll have to provide your own disk). It does cost a bit more than a Pi, and the code is not in mainline yet, but it's easier to work with than a Pi. There are lots of them. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
