Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
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

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: 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

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Moish mo...@mln.co.il wrote: On 04/12/2012 21:27, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: According to research done by google and also in my experience a normal harddisk (spinner) that has functioned without failures for 3 years will generally last for a very long time

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: All of the above is probably negligible compared to two important arguments that have already been mentioned: 1) as a home appliance there are better, more economical, and - most importantly! - quieter solutions for a modest price; 2) tinkering with such a heterogeneous

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's.

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Udi Finkelstein
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

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 vordoo vor...@yahoo.com: On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's. Geoff Yep, I like

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-05 12:31, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: As a word of warning, it is usually better to link to the actual paper (quite a famous one in this case), http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf, and not to a blog about it by someone who mixes up mean and median (he

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Since those new disks have not been around long enough for long term failure statistics, I would be careful using the old ones. The failure statistics papers I know of predate the Thai flood and so are

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:40 PM, vordoo vor...@yahoo.com wrote: As a word of warning ;-) I actually prefer the blog link as I can easily Google the original famous paper. This way I got to read a good blog sum-up + threads on the paper too. I was seriously put off by the guy's attempt to

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Josh Roden
A few years ago I was very disappointed when I bought a WD My Book and found out that it was only able to do 3MB a sec max - real bummer. Josh On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.ilwrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about Home made NAS: I have a

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012, Dan Shimshoni wrote about Re: Home made NAS: 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

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread David Suna
On 12/4/2012 10:43 AM, David Suna wrote: 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 / NAS on our home network. There would probably

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Moish
On 05/12/2012 12:11, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni danshi...@gmail.com: 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

greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread sara fink
Someone knows if there is a greasemonkey script for iba.org.il site? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread Mord Behar
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, sara fink sara.f...@gmail.com wrote: Someone knows if there is a greasemonkey script for iba.org.il site? My Greasefire says no. At least not anything useful. What, in particular, do you want a script to do? ___

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Ori Berger
On 12/05/2012 08:00 AM, Moish wrote: I use WD MyBook Duo 2x3T. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=620 Transfer rate more than enough for HD over N-wireless network. On A side note: Above storage is used (among other devices) by two Apple Tv 2 (jb with Xbmc) and for fun, I will add

Re: greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread sara fink
to play programs (in this case it's audio). It requires flash by adobe. I found a very useful script called free youtube that works in combination with greasemonkey and shows video without shockwave/adobe flash. The same goes for vimeo and mako site. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34765

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Moish
On 05/12/2012 23:55, Ori Berger wrote: On 12/05/2012 08:00 AM, Moish wrote: I use WD MyBook Duo 2x3T. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=620 Transfer rate more than enough for HD over N-wireless network. On A side note: Above storage is used (among other devices) by two Apple Tv 2