On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Nicola Bernardini <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:37:17AM +0100, Wookey wrote: >> +++ Nicola Bernardini [2012-07-20 05:42 +0200]: >> > >> > I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my guess is that >> > the RAM is botched) and I would like to buy another NAS in that price >> > range or whereabouts. And of course, I would like to be able to run a >> > full Debian system on it. Debian Squeeze would be fine, but I can >> > install Woody if need be. What do you think is a good buy? >> >> The solidrun Cubox is nice hardware: >> http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox/ >> >> Available new for $140, with real SATA (external drive) and >> world-class tiny. Non-free Vivante GPU could be annoying for media >> purposes but irrelvant for NAS-type activities. > > In fact, I was already thinking of taking advantage of the hdmi > interface to make it *also* be a streaming media server for my children > (a must these days). Would it be annoying in that sense? > >> >> 1Gb RAM will be an enjoyable step up from the 32MB of a SLUG :-) - >> Should keep you going for quite a few years. >> >> I've seen one running Ubuntu already so Debian should be fine, but I >> think at this moment in time you'll need to use a non-stock kernel: >> http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/Debian_on_CuBox >> I'd expect that to get fixed reasonably quickly. >> >> Others have given plenty of sensible options - it seems we are spoiled >> for choice these days. If someone wanted to summarise this lot >> somewhere on the Debian Wiki, that would be useful. > > I take this opportunity to really thank everybody who took the time to > respond. I was already thinking that, since the choice is so wide, I > wanted to build a little db of all options to be able to make > comparisons. I will try to do this as fast as I can (very busy these > days as everybody else), and then I'll post back to have everybody check > on the results. Thanks again to all! > What about the DNS320? I have been thinking on getting one and seeing how it would play with debian or openwrt. Thoughts?
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