Greetings,
I too have a Thecus N5200+ Pro. I would endorse it. Simple, quiet,
good form factor and just works.
If purchasing just double check the HDDs and their spin up time.
Enjoy
Gavin
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1. Re: NAS device for home? (Jamie Wilkinson)
2. Re: NAS device for home? (Ben)
3. Suppress unable to enumerate USB device messages?
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From: Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org
Date: 3 January 2009 1:32:18 PM
To: Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net
Cc: SLUG slug@slug.org.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?
I bought a Thecus N5200+ which holds 5 SATA disks and sits on the
network (or can be USB storage if you want it to). Apart from a
typically bad web management UI, it's pretty awesome.
2008/12/19 Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net:
Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that
takes more
than 2 large disks, does RAID5, does NFS and CIFS. (I've seen a few
devices
for home, but they were limited to 2 disks).
I'm wondering if buying such a NAS device would be more expensive
than
buying a barebones mobo/cpu + case and putting Linux on. If so, any
recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of SATA drives
(eg 6 or
8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that requires Windoze to
support
said large number of drives?
Thanks, Sonia,
who has much p0rn to store (martial arts videos)
:-)
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From: Ben shadr...@gmail.com
Date: 3 January 2009 11:40:17 PM
To: SLUG slug@slug.org.au
Subject: Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?
I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB
IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so
wouldn't be of any use.
My main PC has 8 SATA ports and will become the file server when done,
again the motherboard is out of date.
You should have too much trouble tracking down a new Gigabyte
motherboard with 8 SATA ports on it, but four should be enough - I
have 4.4TB of capacity (configured as 2.2 + 2.2 with daily rysnc
between them).
Oh, and you misspelt pr0n. ;-)
Speaking of pr0n, here's some really nice pics of my home built NAS
cabinet. Hard drives tend to vibrate, and get warm when near one
another so I got a bit creative:
old drawer + elastic shock cord + 2 coat hangers + L shaped aluminium
cut to size and drilled:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack2.jpg
cables:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack7.jpg
next to the beast powering it:
http://shadroth.nfshost.com/hdd-rack/hdd-rack8.jpg
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net
wrote:
Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that
takes more
than 2 large disks, does RAID5, does NFS and CIFS. (I've seen a few
devices
for home, but they were limited to 2 disks).
I'm wondering if buying such a NAS device would be more expensive
than
buying a barebones mobo/cpu + case and putting Linux on. If so, any
recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of SATA drives
(eg 6 or
8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that requires Windoze to
support
said large number of drives?
Thanks, Sonia,
who has much p0rn to store (martial arts videos)
:-)
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From: Mary Gardiner m...@puzzling.org
Date: 4 January 2009 8:36:40 AM
To: slug@slug.org.au
Subject: [SLUG] Suppress unable to enumerate USB device messages?
One of my machines has a card reader (CF, SD and so on). This device
causes a message like this to be constantly logged to dmesg and the
console:
hub 5-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
Apparently this is a known bug, or perhaps not a bug but an
interaction
between the way these devices work and what the kernel expects:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/26/217
However, the messages themselves are seriously annoying. For
example, if
a drive fscks on boot, I can't watch its progress or see any questions
or warnings because hub 5-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on
port
6 appears on the console several times a second.
Is it possible to suppress this message? Because of the fsck thing,
such
supression would ideally happen early in the boot process, ie before I
have a prompt.
-Mary
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