On 21/12/20 8:20 am, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Somewhat related. I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my > router and share it there. The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports. Is > it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? I'd assume it can be > shared with anything connected to the router, even my cell phone if > needed. > > Also, I'm looking at a new network card for my PC. With the new much > faster internet coming soon, I need a faster network card. Router is > ready, puter isn't. I found this, sorry for the caps but copy and > paste. INTEL GIGABIT DUAL PORT NETWORK ADAPTER PCIe 424RR i350 1GB. I > found a site that talks about NAS and network cards. According to the > article, this should be a very reliable card and just works. It has two > ports. I know I need one to hook to the router. Would that second port > cause me any grief? Result in conflicts or something? I been using > Realtek but article claims these are better. Anyone have thoughts on > this? Have one and can share their experience? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Something to look into before going the traditional raid/nfs route: moosefs or lizardfs. I am using arm based odroid HC2's and over the softraid based nfs I was using there are considerable power savings (especially if you take into the account redundancy) as it takes a number of these low power arm systems to match the power requirements of an older desktop), better data protection (actual, not theoretical for 2x raid 4 disk 10's replaced by a single 5x hc2's using the same disks with mfs :) and the ease of mounting it into the filesystem. Downside is needing a fast network for best performance but an NFS will need that anyway for similar reasons.
BillK
