[gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-29 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the high end pricetags and ev

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built your own. After looking at a few on google .. I'm a little surprised at the hig

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: > I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas > storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here > since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built > your own. I just bought a USB hard di

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: > A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been > around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. > > Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself, > or missing compared to storebought. Maybe maintenance > consid

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:56:48 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: > The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some > fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the > config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe > that is something some peopl

Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 00:06, Harry Putnam wrote: ... A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. Power consumption, too. I think some of the off-the-shelf mini-NAS use a low-power MIPS processor. I like a