William Kenworthy wrote: > 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
I was reading somewhere about FreeNAS OS that is commonly used on a NAS and it uses ZFS. It sounded a lot like a LVM or BTRFS, (sp?), type file system. I can't find ZFS in the kernel so it seems it is only used with that OS/software. I'm not sure if it uses anything else for file systems either. While I have seen moosefs and lizardfs mentioned on this list, I have no idea how it works or anything. If I use FreeNAS, I may not have many options. At this point, I don't know if I will use Gentoo or something that is made just for NAS setups or even something else that is binary based like Arch, some *buntu or something. The downside of Gentoo, I may not update very often. We know how Gentoo is when going months or more without updating. I have kinda picked a case so far. The rest is still being thought about. In a way, I have several things going on. My backup drive is getting full, super fast internet is coming soon, I need to upgrade my network card for that plus I want to get something more advanced and expandable for file storage, mostly videos. I also wouldn't mind having a media center type box as well. I thought about buying some sort of used game station type box for a media box. I've heard those can be networked and used to watch videos on TV with and perform pretty well. I also want to get back to work on building a speaker system for my TV as well. I put that on back burner when I got busy with tree cutting and then along comes the bug. At the moment, I'm planning to get a network card. I need that for the faster internet but I'll also need it for the NAS as well. If I can connect that to my router, that alone will help a lot. I can then connect something to the router and access the NAS, even on wi-fi. I like that idea and it appears to be the way it is done. I'll look into them but it mostly depends on what I use for a OS on the NAS. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
