Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

[vordoo]

Short answer: - cheaper than dirt, or at least double digits, not triple (in dollars) Sorry this is not going to happen, adjust the figure & come back later. Lookup one of the 'of the shelf' -W.D My Books, or whatever, home NAS  systems. You can get or build one like these, copy all your data: - Slowly by browsing to the home-NAS web interface from your old devices or PCs. - Faster by connection to the home-NAS file share OR direct connecting a USB adapter from home-NAS to the old IDE's or SD-cards. If you D.I.Y you may get a better system. Maybe combine a new router/firewall in the NAS to solve the two network, wired & WiFi, problem. but the price will be more or less the same. Because ->... Long Answer: - if it can handle IDE drives it would be awesome - all my old drives are IDE , and it would be nice to continue using them.  Nope, it probably will be a bad idea to use the old disks, instead of buying a one new big efficient HD: - It will cost you more money to connect & use the old ones. If you have a motherboard that can accept all of them, it will use a lot more electricity, if you do not have one it will cost you on top of that to get the old one's even connected. - It will make a lot more noise, heat and you pay for damping & cooling it. - They are old & getting older, they are going to die soon, you do back up:-) If not, I need a solution to connect the older drives - at least so I can transfer the data without taking apart an older computer and physically mounting each drive.  Your home-NAS will have it setup for you, by using NFS, SMB or a web interface, whether built from scratch -running your own linux server & services on hardware similar to the one's that are suggested for FreeNAS projects, or proprietary solution. After you have setup the file share in the NAS, SAN or whatever you can boot your old device/PC and move the data to the share: - Slowly by browsing to the home-NAS web interface from your old devices or PCs. - Faster by connection to the home-NAS file share OR Take out the old IDE's, SD-card or whatever holds your data and plug it with a USB adapter to the home-NAS. See:  Open source implementations FreeNas, Openindiana, Owncloud (not exactly a NAS but you may like it). And proprietary solutions, W.D. My book or whatever. - 2 drives (maybe more?) Yep, but... as you ask that it be cheap, make sure you address the backup before you spend on redundant disks -AS THEY ARE NOT BACKUPS!. And, in today high density disks era, you DO NOT use raid 5 -It is statistically & practically granted to fail. Go for raid 1, 6 or 10. - accessible by both wired and wireless connections, if possible No problem, see above. Questions: 1. What do I do if my wireless router has two IP networks, one for the wired computers and the other for the wireless (a real situation and also a real pain in the ass - wired computers and laptops could not reach one another)? - You have an option in the router to use only one network or brig the mandatory two. - You have an option to change/upgrade the firmware to one that can do the above. See: OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc. - Get a new router or build a home-NAS that is a router too. - Brig the networks on another device, build a home-NAS that is a brig for the two networks. 2. Is there a simple way - or any way - to connect to the drive from several networks (because the cell phones have a different IP address, and also the wired and wireless devices might have separate IP addresses)? Yes, you share the drive & connect with web or brig the networks,  see above. HTH,

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