http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31314-wd-my-book-live-reviewed http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/mybook-live
It has a 1GHz ARM and 256MB of RAM (No USB though). Udi On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dan Shimshoni <danshi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Nadav, > > Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for >$160. > >For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-> based > server in one package. > > What do you mean by "ARM-based server" here ? I don't sure > I understand. Does this product include some tiny ARM server? > Do you have access to this server by telnet/ssh, and is there a BSP > open source package ? I see you have ethernet connection there. > I look in WD site, and I don't see that they mention an ARM > based server there: > > http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280 > > > Can you please give a link/elaborate about the product you are talking > about ? > > rgs > DS > > For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based) > server in one package. > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS": > >> I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just > >> collecting dust. I would like to collect the disks from all of > >> them, put them together into a single server to act as a file server > > > > A couple of years I started doing something similar to what you are > planning. > > I took an old computer, and stuck in it a bunch of hard disks I had from > > previous years - one was 1 terabyte, another 300 gigabyte, and a third > > 80 gigabytes. The computer ran Linux, and served files (mostly CDs and > DVDs) > > on my home network with NFS and Samba. > > > > But then I realized how annoying this setup was: the computer was very > big, > > noisy, and had to be on all the time. The old disks (especially the 80 > > gigabytes) were a joke, and I all three disks summed together were > > smaller than a just new disk I could buy. > > > > Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160. > > > > For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based) > > server in one package. The package is 10 times smaller than my old > computer, > > nearly silent, and uses up less electricity, and came preconfigured with > > the server software (it runs Linux, but you don't have direct access to > > it). > > > > So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this > > as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of > > old equipment is waste of your energy. > > > > -- > > Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Dec 4 2012, 20 > Kislev 5773 > > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you notice this notice, you'll > notice > > http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's not worth noticing but is > noticable. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-il mailing list > > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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