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

2013-10-07 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Steve G., from the post of Fri, 04 Oct: > > So I am thinking, maybe I should get an external network drive, or raid, or > NAS, and use it to consolidate my drive and keep all my files in one place > from now onward. I have yet to see a cheap hardware off-the-shelf NAS that can beat a PC i

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

2013-10-07 Thread Udi Finkelstein
Using a PC as a server has several drawbacks: 1. Size 2. Power consumption A typical ARM based NAS will usually beat a PC in both categories. BTW, for backing up pictures, if you don't use the RAW file format, you can use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your files pri

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

2013-10-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Still beta but I've just heard about it and it got me thinking about something like this for myself one day: https://arkos.io/ The main problem I see with running my own server is that it depends on my home ADSL line. Most of the time it shouldn't be a major problem but still access will be slower

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

2013-10-07 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
I did the math once, not worth it, חפרתי קצת לגבי לוחות שלא זוללים הרבה חשמל ומצאתי כמה > אבל היתה לי עכשיו שיחה ממש מעניינת עם בחור בשם יריב מאתר plonter > הבחור לא איש שיווק אבל הוא תפר לי משהו יפיפיה מארז מעוצב ב-1500 > אני יכול לשחק טיפה עם הלוח אם ולקחת משהו חזק יותר אם צריך > > עוד משהו שיצא

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

2013-10-07 Thread vordoo
DO NOT USE RAID 5, Go for 1, 6, or 10 : http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162 > use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your files private if you want)... Marked or not, if you flickr privet it will not b

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

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... Intel Atom boards AMD E-series ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more) So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you would get that lo

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

2013-10-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin them down. On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: > There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available... > Intel Atom boards > AMD E-ser

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

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/7 Dotan Cohen : > Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed > for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin > them down. Well that depends on the firmware/OS and the optimizations you add... In prebuilt stuff I would also expect it, in self

Re: Linux with Android MTP

2013-10-07 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read that MTP is not reliably supported. There is a partial solutions if your phone is rooted (although I haven't tried it yet). Look at USB Mass Storage Enabler: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungus