My biggest bitch about "normal" machines is that I want my NAS up all the time and a 350watt power supply could potentially add something like $20/month to my electric bill....
Ideally I'd like to find something in the 120watt or under range that can still support a decent amount of disk (quan 2 SATA drives). So far I haven't found anything, but I leave in a couple weeks for CES in Lost Wages and hope to report on what I find...I'm especially keen on hunting around the Taiwan, China and Korea pavilions for OEM parts. /brian chee InfoWorld Media Group c/o University of Hawaii SOEST (ANCL) 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: 808-956-5797, Fax: 877-284-1934 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Kiwerski Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:00 AM To: LUAU Subject: Re: [LUAU] Anyone use a Linksys NSLU2? USB hard disk drives are FOSSfriendly? Just a thought... A friend of mine set up his using a regular computer, 2 250Gb ide drives and FreeNAS (free for the download). Said it took him about 5 minutes to set it up. That was about 6 months ago - he just uses it as if it were another drive. The computer doesn't have to be very fast either. I believe he said he had a Pentium 750, or something along that line. Dave Jim Thompson wrote: > > Intel OEMs a box with a 400MHz 80219 Xscale controller and a SATA > controller that will house up to 4 3.5" SATA drives. > It has 2xGigE + 2x USB 2.0 coming out of it, and .. it runs Linux, and > supports CIFS/SMB and NFS out of the box. > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau
