Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... Thanks for the link. It says they were inspired by the Backblaze project. For those not familiar, Backblaze is in the business of

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: Kurt Keville wrote: I have been following this dialogue at various

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5 drives

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Kurt Keville wrote: I wonder if this approach would scale up and down to laptop drives? It may be that you get higher density with that form factor... it will be more robust I would think. Higher density, sure, but robust? Because 2.5 drives are more hardened against physical shock? I see a

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Derek Atkins
On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:57 pm, John Abreau wrote: Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. Right now you can pay ~$350 for a 20-disk enclosure from NewEgg:

Re: [Discuss] BLU Annual BBQ is July 30

2011-07-29 Thread jc
| We've got confirmation that July 30 is OK, so the BLU annual BBQ will be held | on Saturday, July 30, 2011. It looks like someone ordered good weather for the BLU BBQ, sunny and in the upper 80s. We were getting low on charcoal, so I just got a new bag. I'm also freezing a bunch of

Re: [Discuss] BLU Annual BBQ is July 30

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
Sounds great! See you all tomorrow! On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: | We've got confirmation that July 30 is OK, so the BLU annual BBQ will be held | on Saturday, July 30, 2011. It looks like someone ordered good weather for the BLU BBQ, sunny and in  the  

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5 drives

2011-07-29 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
On 7/29/2011 3:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote: When I recently bought a 1TB 2.5 drive, I noticed the WD offering was 12.5mm, and so I bought a 9.5mm Samsung: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152291 which NewEgg now lists as deactivated. I wonder why. Samsung's storage

Re: [Discuss] PGP key signing party registration is not working for me.

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
Hi, Andrew. We normally reset the keyring for the keysigning script in early August. At the moment, however, we're using a loaner machine for the server until we get the old server either repaired or replaced, and the loaner machine doesn't have gnupg installed on it. We'll be resetting the

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Feenberg wrote: And what would be wrong with the Antec Twelve Hundred case, available from Microcenter for $185? http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361137 Not rack-mountable, but otherwise a fine, quiet case with lots of air movement and space for

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
James Kramer wrote: Has a copy of Federico's talk posted on the site? He gave the same talk at OSCON. Looks like he posted the slides there: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18831 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source.

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, John Abreau wrote: Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing. And what would be wrong

[Discuss] Ksplice go Kput

2011-07-29 Thread Richard Pieri
Tried to send this last week but it got bounced by the outage. The news is a week old, now, but it's still important: Oracle has acquired Ksplice. This Oracle-owned Ksplice will support Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. And that's it. Choice quote: Oracle believes it will be the only enterprise