Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:33 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 18:02, u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote: John Holland wrote You could use a 2.5 HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage specified @ 1.5W seek and .7W idle. Thanks for pointing out the low energy

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-19 Thread u7l11ey
Björn Wetterbom wrote: I've also used an external WD 3.5 drive which I am very pleased with, and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5 drives at good prices I would go for one of those. Thanks for that suggestion. I've read several recommendations for WD 2.5 drives, so I'd like to go that

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-19 Thread Ruediger Leibrandt
Am Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010 schrieb Björn Wetterbom: I've used a Freecom 2.5 drive for a couple of years with good results. USB powered of course. I'd say go for a 1.8 external usb hdd. Same wear-cycle as a 2.5 drive ( MTBF ~ 50.000 hours ), but uses even less power. -- Rüdiger -- To

Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread u7l11ey
Dear List Members, this is not really a Debian question; if there is a better place to ask this, please let me know. I've been using a NSLU2 under Lenny as a very energy-efficient server for logging my solar heating system. Since I need very little storage space, I decided to use a 2GB USB

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Holland, John
On 18.02.2010, at 15:06, u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote: I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a manifold increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses 10W. You could use a 2.5 HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Brook
I've also been thinking about getting a SheevaPlug or its newly announced successor GuruPlug and using the internal SD card as mass storage. Does SD have less problems that USB sticks when used instead of a harddisk, or would I run into the same issues? In my experience SD cards have even

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Luca Niccoli
On 18 February 2010 14:49, u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de wrote: I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a manifold increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses 10W. Are there any brands of USB sticks that other users can recommend that are more resilient?

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread u7l11ey
John Holland wrote You could use a 2.5 HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage specified @ 1.5W seek and .7W idle. Thanks for pointing out the low energy consumption of modern 2.5 HDs. Since others mentioned that SD is even less suitable for my purpose, I think I'll go that route. Can anybody

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Björn Wetterbom
I've used a Freecom 2.5 drive for a couple of years with good results. USB powered of course. I've also used an external WD 3.5 drive which I am very pleased with, and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5 drives at good prices I would go for one of those. /Björn On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Björn Wetterbom wrote: I've used a Freecom 2.5 drive for a couple of years with good results. USB powered of course. I've also used an external WD 3.5 drive which I am very pleased with, and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5 drives at good prices I would go

Re: Alternative to using USB-Stick as mass storage on NSLU2

2010-02-18 Thread Jake McGraw
Doesn't look like these are sold anymore, but I bought one 4 years ago because when I first read about issues with flash memory and the NSLU2s, I knew I needed a rotating magnetic disk, and this was the smallest USB one money cold buy: