Re: [OCLUG-Tech] NAS boxes

2013-01-07 Thread Bill Strosberg
On 13-01-07 05:19 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > In another post, Spencer mentions hot running. Agreed. > > About BIOS upgrade, I don't think I did that. I'm not home until > mid-Feb, so cannot check BIOS version (unit behind firewall). Maybe my > unit was shipped a bit later than yours. I know

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Spencer Cheng
RP has a 100 Mbps NIC. It's not going to be very fast as a NAS (6-8 MB/s max as a guess). It will be cheap though. :) I usually want SATA on anything I would consider as a NAS and RP doesn't have any SATA connectors. Dreamplug does but it's not terribly cheap. I keep on occasionally testing the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] NAS boxes

2013-01-07 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
In another post, Spencer mentions hot running. Agreed. About BIOS upgrade, I don't think I did that. I'm not home until mid-Feb, so cannot check BIOS version (unit behind firewall). Maybe my unit was shipped a bit later than yours. I know I did one BIOS upgrade on something, but I don't think i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Eric Brackenbury
OK found this http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/12/14/raspberry-pi-nas-with-openmediavault Looks like it works with ssh to but needs to be started. Eric B On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Dmitriy Korovkin wrote: > How about Raspberry Pi? It has USB ports. > > Dmitr

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 97, Issue 3

2013-01-07 Thread Spencer Cheng
Hi Peter, For low power but fast enough servers, something like a Tegra 3 (ARM quad core, GPU) is hard to beat for power efficiency. Linux does run on it. NVidia is supplying 3.1.10-based Ubuntu-derivative distribution for it. I read about a mini-ITX ARM-based board announcement a few weeks ago

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux Digest, Vol 97, Issue 3

2013-01-07 Thread Peter Meyer
Hi: I've also had a Koolu box running for over 4+ years. It continues to work well as a Samba/DHCP/DNS/WINS/DLNA/Squeezebox/Printer server. It has just barely enough capacity when run as a ubuntu server. It is beginning to get a bit "long in the tooth". I am also looking for a separate/combine

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Spencer Cheng
I've been running FreeNAS for a while. Current release works fine but it is based on FreeBSD. If Linux is a requirement, it won't be the right solution. My freeNAS box is based on a ASUS E35m mini-ITX MB and a Lian Li PC-Q25 NAS case. It boots off a USB flash and all the data is stored on HDD us

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Eric Brackenbury
I just found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS since I was doing my best to understand the initial post (newb on this subject) and try to research the unknown. Hope it might be useful Eric B Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:02:26 -0500 > From: Martin Hicks > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] R

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
I've also got a bunch of servers turned off, only one left on... I'ld love to replace it with somehting small and lower power... My requirements are: 1) at least 2 eSATA ports 2) Sata controller supports PM on eSATA 3) Gbit NIC 4) Enough horsepower to process close 100MB/s between eSATA and the ne

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
I've run a Koolu box for about 4 years. Claim is 15w only. Had a built-in 80g IDE drive, now replaced with 320G. 4 USBs, Ethernet, video, and sound. I run Lucid-server on it. Unfortunately, I don't think available. I'd also be interested in results Martin finds, and suspect there must be some bo

[OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Martin Hicks
Hi, I've been running a full-sized PC in a 2U rackmount case in my basement for years and years and am finding that I no longer use it except as a file server for movies and music and as a place to copy files for backup purposes. Can someone recommend a small machine that has: 1) ability to run