Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5 hard disk?

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Frank, Frank Tarczynski ft...@mindspring.com writes: I'm looking to build a small NAS box, sort of like the WD Mybook, but with more capabilities. Does anyone know of a small case that will hold an ARM based board and a single 3.5 SATA drive? I use a qnap TS-119P II for that. It has 2 GHz

Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5 hard disk?

2013-03-14 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi, On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Michael Stapelberg stapelb...@debian.org wrote: Hi Frank, Frank Tarczynski ft...@mindspring.com writes: I'm looking to build a small NAS box, sort of like the WD Mybook, but with more capabilities. Does anyone know of a small case that will hold an ARM

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-14 Thread Sander
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote (ao): On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sander san...@humilis.net wrote: I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. Why can't you just use an usb-to-serial cable? reliability of the usb-to-serial cable. i.e. many people have found them to be

Re: Case for ARM-based system and single 3.5 hard disk?

2013-03-14 Thread John Winters
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:23:27 +, David Pottage da...@electric-spoon.com wrote: I use a qnap ts-110. It works well and is reliable, but performance is low as it is only 600 MHz and 256 gb of RAM. Who was it who said that 256 GB of RAM should be enough for anybody? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote: Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? FWIW, I use a handful of http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have an

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-14 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:40 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote: Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? FWIW, I use a handful of http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've never failed