In another post, Spencer mentions hot running. Agreed. About BIOS upgrade, I don't think I did that. I'm not home until mid-Feb, so cannot check BIOS version (unit behind firewall). Maybe my unit was shipped a bit later than yours. I know I did one BIOS upgrade on something, but I don't think it was the Koolu.
This seems to be of sufficient interest to suggest as a meeting topic. Maybe OCLUG could do a "design project" where we choose parts and set them up and report the setup and provide image of the s/w. It looks like there are several folk interested. Cheers, JN On 13-01-07 03:04 PM, Peter Meyer wrote: > Hi: > > I've also had a Koolu box running for over 4+ years. It continues to work > well as a Samba/DHCP/DNS/WINS/DLNA/Squeezebox/Printer server. It has just > barely enough capacity when run as a ubuntu server. It is beginning to get > a bit "long in the tooth". I am also looking for a separate/combined box > can also be a decent reliable/disk redundent low powered file server for a > Windoze/Linux/Mac environment. > > I'd be interested in ideas posted here. I've heard some good things about > FreeNas and want to figure out what complementary hardware to assemble for > it. > > JN: Where did you find the bios upgrade to get past the Koolu's 80G disk > limit? A disk failure has been my biggest concern with this box. > > Peter > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Send Linux mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Linux digest..." >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Recommendations for home NAS (Martin Hicks) >> 2. Re: Recommendations for home NAS (Prof J C Nash (U30A)) >> 3. Re: Recommendations for home NAS (Aidan Van Dyk) >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Martin Hicks <[email protected]> >> To: OCLUG tech list <[email protected]> >> Cc: >> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:02:26 -0500 >> Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS >> Hi, >> >> I've been running a full-sized PC in a 2U rackmount case in my basement for >> years and years and am finding that I no longer use it except as a file >> server for movies and music and as a place to copy files for backup >> purposes. >> >> Can someone recommend a small machine that has: >> >> 1) ability to run linux (I think I'd prefer flash-based OS, with openWRT or >> something similar) >> >> 2) either slots for two 3.5" disks or external connection ability >> (USB/ESata) for data volumes, as I'd like to RAID-1 my data-holding disks >> >> It could also be a wireless router / gateway / switch, but that isn't >> mandatory since I have an ancient WRT54GS that still does the job quite >> capably. >> >> Thanks, >> mh >> >> -- >> Martin Hicks P.Eng. | [email protected] >> Bork Consulting Inc. | +1 (613) 266-2296 >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:13:27 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS >> I've run a Koolu box for about 4 years. Claim is 15w only. Had a built-in >> 80g IDE drive, now replaced with 320G. 4 USBs, Ethernet, video, >> and sound. I run Lucid-server on it. Unfortunately, I don't think >> available. >> >> I'd also be interested in results Martin finds, and suspect there must be >> some boxes similar to the Koolu out there, possibly even as small as a >> Raspberry Pi if one didn't need too much performance. >> >> JN >> >> >> On 13-01-07 10:02 AM, Martin Hicks wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been running a full-sized PC in a 2U rackmount case in my basement >>> for >>> years and years and am finding that I no longer use it except as a file >>> server for movies and music and as a place to copy files for backup >>> purposes. >>> >>> Can someone recommend a small machine that has: >>> >>> 1) ability to run linux (I think I'd prefer flash-based OS, with openWRT >>> or >>> something similar) >>> >>> 2) either slots for two 3.5" disks or external connection ability >>> (USB/ESata) for data volumes, as I'd like to RAID-1 my data-holding disks >>> >>> It could also be a wireless router / gateway / switch, but that isn't >>> mandatory since I have an ancient WRT54GS that still does the job quite >>> capably. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> mh >>> >>> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Aidan Van Dyk <[email protected]> >> To: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <[email protected]> >> Cc: linux <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:55:03 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS >> I've also got a bunch of servers turned off, only one left on... >> >> I'ld love to replace it with somehting small and lower power... My >> requirements are: >> 1) at least 2 eSATA ports >> 2) Sata controller supports PM on eSATA >> 3) Gbit NIC >> 4) Enough horsepower to process close 100MB/s between eSATA and the network >> via NFS and CIFS >> >> Ya, nothing major ;-) >> >> a. >> >> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> on >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aidan Van Dyk Create like a >> god, >> [email protected] command like a >> king, >> http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a >> slave. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
