Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au writes: Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive formats? They vary wildly, and are frequently good only if you can accept a slow, large storage system. They are seldom good for fast storage, and especially storage needs

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Barrie Hall
I must say after years of filling up old Compaq servers with SATA disks and then having said servers die after 18 months, I just gave up and went and bought a Dlink DNS-343 and put 4 x 1TB disks in it RAID 5. It's great. It's shuts down the arrray after xx mins of inactivity, uses very little

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:29:22PM +1100, Barrie Hall wrote: I must say after years of filling up old Compaq servers with SATA disks and then having said servers die after 18 months, I just gave up and went and bought a Dlink DNS-343 and put 4 x 1TB disks in it RAID 5. It's great. It's

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Sorry - this is getting off topic from where I was looking for a trustworthy (ie Linux) firmware on a drive box. But discussion all the same . . Maybe speed is important in some apps, but not my main concern. What if you had just forked out $3k to digitise some (ok - at lot of) slides,

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Barrie Hall
Sorry - this is getting off topic from where I was looking for a trustworthy (ie Linux) firmware on a drive box. But discussion all the same . . Maybe speed is important in some apps, but not my main concern. What if you had just forked out $3k to digitise some (ok - at lot of) slides,

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

2009-03-14 Thread Adam Bogacki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Until recently I've been using a palm-based PDA and jPilot on the desktop. My palm alas has died. So now I want to use my Nokia E65 phone instead to track appointments, TODos, and PIN numbers (via gnome-keyring). It has a much more horrible

Re. [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

2009-03-14 Thread Adam Bogacki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, have a look at http://www.pimlico-project.org/ Cheers, Adam Bogacki, a...@paradise.net.nz Live life as if each moment may be your last. Live on a fault line ! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

2009-03-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Adam == Adam Bogacki a...@paradise.net.nz writes: Until recently I've been using a palm-based PDA and jPilot on the desktop. My palm alas has died. So now I want to use my Nokia Adam E65 phone instead to track appointments, TODos, and PIN numbers (via gnome-keyring). It has a much more