I, too, went down the old-PC-with-NAS-software route, which served me well
for years. (Still got it, somewhere.)
Power, noise and small(ish) PATA discs got to me in the end, so I bought a
Netgear ReadyNAS box and a couple of decent-sized SATA discs and have never
looked back. Silent, low power dra
On 30 January 2014 22:07:58 GMT, Ian Park wrote:
>On 30/01/14 18:51, Ally Biggs wrote:
>> Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get
>Freenas on there.
>>
>> I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was
>happily chugging along serving up files for over 2 year
Raspberry Pis make very slow NAS drives as both the HDD and Ethernet port
are on the same USB bus.
I quite like using the HP microserver as a nas, takes up to 5 HDD (4 in
easy to remove caddies) fairly low power conspired to most desktop PCs,
very compact and very cheap, normally about £100-200.
O
On 30/01/14 22:07, Ian Park wrote:
Yes, for a while I went down the road of sticking some drives in an
old PC and running a Debian server installation; however the NAS has
the dual advantage of being a lot more compact than even a low-profile
desktop case (which you'd be pushed to get a coupl
On 30/01/14 18:51, Ally Biggs wrote:
Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get Freenas on
there.
I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was happily chugging
along serving up files for over 2 years.
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On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, "john"
Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get Freenas on
there.
I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was happily chugging
along serving up files for over 2 years.
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On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, "john" wrote:
> I abandoned NAS a long ti
I abandoned NAS a long time ago as cost in-efficient.
The way I go now is to use a SATA drive caddy - cost £12 to £20 and use
Samba.
Hard disk size. Your choice.
the following will detect and mount the drive caddy disk.
#!/bin/bash
ls /dev/sd?
for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
do
echo
Hi Chris,
I like budget/DIY solutions so I'd recommend either:
* FreeNAS http://www.freenas.org/
* Run Debian etc on low-power/cheap PC/SheevaPlug/Raspberry PI - and
attach large cheap multi-Tb USB HDDs
Paid for, I hear QNAP or Drobo are good. Drobo tends to be more
high-end I think.
Depending
I had a couple of Lacie nas disks, not anymore I gave them away they crashed
more times than a drunk 17 year old with a fast car.
I found a second hand shuttle on ebay for less than £50 and put 2 tb of
disks and debian on to it, and it seems to be running well.
Kind regards
Simon
--
switch lights make it clear that there's not an
appreciable amount of data going anywhere else.
Bests,
Paul.
Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse my brevity.
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From: DAWE C
Date:30/01/2014 09:33 (GMT+00:00)
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
I have a D-Link DNS-320, which has 2
SATA drive pays; I populated them with a couple of Western Digital
1TB drives in RAID-1. Found a very useful tutorial [1] on how to
tweak it so it's accessible from my Linux box to back up my media
files.
[1]
http:
I would like a NAS at home, on which I can store lots of files and have
them accessible from both Limux and Widnows. (I am trying to avoid the
mistake I made w few years ago, when I got a network disc which needed a
driver to access, so was only available from certain versions of Widnows!).
Any r
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