Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-07 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:40:32PM -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Adding another candidate to the list: DNS 321? Good/bad/debian-friendly? The DNS-323 is/was(?) a good Debian-friendly bit of kit. I don't know about later models; my 323 still works fine for me, and nobody's sent me a newer

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-07 Thread Eric Cooper
This article claims that the WD MyBook Live uses Debian and is easily rootable: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-howto/31828-fun-with-rsync-and-more-on-the-wd-my-book-live And the bottom of the manufacturer's support page seems to confirm that:

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-06 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Adding another candidate to the list: DNS 321? Good/bad/debian-friendly? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501da4e0.9030...@gmail.com

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-05 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Rob van der Hoeven robvanderhoe...@ziggo.nl wrote: On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 13:18 +0200, Spitz, Richard wrote: I love my orion based QNAP TS-109, and currently would upgrade to QNAP TS-119 if I would have the need, but QNAP isn't cheap. So maybe the Plug

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-05 Thread David Given
On 05/08/12 21:01, Mauricio Tavares wrote: [...] You are not alone. A while ago I read about this guy who had a webserver for customers and went from a Sparc box to a laptop and then to a Seagate Dockstar with external drive. And now it is being powered by solar arrays, which also charge

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-04 Thread Spitz, Richard
Am 2012-08-03 20:44, schrieb Timo Jyrinki: 2012/7/20 Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org: 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

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-04 Thread Matt Palmer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 01:18:41PM +0200, Spitz, Richard wrote: What is the real advantage of running Debian on a NAS? I'm presently using a NSLU2 under Debian for collecting and graphing energy data in my home. Now I need a NAS, whose primary purpose is central data storage and backup, while

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-08-03 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2012/7/20 Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org: 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.

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian? - slightly OT

2012-08-02 Thread DrEagle
Le 30/07/2012 19:57, Brian Platt a écrit : Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:24:51 +0100 From: m...@rlogin.net To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian? - slightly OT On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:03:15 +0100 Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk allegedly

RE: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian? - slightly OT

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Platt
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:24:51 +0100 From: m...@rlogin.net To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian? - slightly OT On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:03:15 +0100 Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk allegedly wrote: Even powerful modern x86

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-27 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 22:16 +0100, mick wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:47:47 +0100 Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk allegedly wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:39 +0100, mick wrote: Depends what you mean by fast. But in real world usage (pulling a video file from store) it is about three times faster

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-27 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 27 Jul 2012, at 08:34, Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 22:16 +0100, mick wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:47:47 +0100 Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk allegedly wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:39 +0100, mick wrote: Depends what you mean by fast. But in real world usage (pulling a

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian? - slightly OT

2012-07-27 Thread mick
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:03:15 +0100 Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk allegedly wrote: Even powerful modern x86 boxes are still CPU bound with scp so as Tixy says adding scp to the mix complicates the testing. For example I get roughly USB2 wire-speed (30mb/s ish) from my iconnect over

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-26 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM, mick m...@rlogin.net wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:42 -0400 Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: What about the DNS320? I have been thinking on getting one and seeing how it would play with debian or openwrt. Thoughts? Good cheap

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-26 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org wrote: Sorry list, I can imagine this question has been asked many times, but the answer changes with time and browsing this list and related resources I cannot find a sufficiently recent (let's say1 year)

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-26 Thread mick
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:02:47 -0400 Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM, mick m...@rlogin.net wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:42 -0400 Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: What about the DNS320? I have been

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-26 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:39 +0100, mick wrote: Depends what you mean by fast. But in real world usage (pulling a video file from store) it is about three times faster than an NSLU2. Consider the following tests using scp to grab a 1.1 GB video file (so some overhead in the encryption as

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-26 Thread mick
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:47:47 +0100 Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk allegedly wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:39 +0100, mick wrote: Depends what you mean by fast. But in real world usage (pulling a video file from store) it is about three times faster than an NSLU2. Consider the following tests using

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-24 Thread Nicola Bernardini
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

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-24 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org 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

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-24 Thread mick
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:24:42 -0400 Mauricio Tavares raubvo...@gmail.com allegedly wrote: What about the DNS320? I have been thinking on getting one and seeing how it would play with debian or openwrt. Thoughts? Good cheap choice. I got mine for about GBP 45.00 unpopulated (I already

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* DrEagle drea...@doukki.net [2012-07-20 13:28]: Is there any plan to support *officialy* the raidsonic IB 62x0 from IcyBox in Debian ? I'm not aware of any plans but it shouldn't be too hard. May be it will be a good idea to engage a official support in debian ? How can I help ? Take a

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-21 Thread Fredrik Jonson
Nicola Bernardini wrote: I would like to buy another NAS in that [NSLU 2] price range or whereabouts. And of course, I would like to be able to run a full Debian system on it. There is the Excito B3. Granted, it is more expensive (300 EUR), but in my experience a great device. The

RE: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread Paul Kench
Sorry list, I can imagine this question has been asked many times, but the answer changes with time and browsing this list and related resources I cannot find a sufficiently recent (let's say1 year) answer to it. I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org [2012-07-20 05:42]: I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my guess is that If you want to replace a NSLU2, I recommend either a SheevaPlug or an eSATA SheevaPlug. They are both supported by Debian squeeze and wheezy:

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread JF Straeten
Nicola, On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:42:30AM +0200, Nicola Bernardini wrote: [...] 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, [...] Thank you for all your

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread DrEagle
Hi Martin, Is there any plan to support *officialy* the raidsonic IB 62x0 from IcyBox in Debian ? For now it is already supported by the denx uboot and will be in the next linux kernel. I have already one which runs debian squeeze with few tweaks. I'll soon upgrade another from the stock

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread Frank Fesevur
If you just want a simple and cheap NSLU2 replacement, have you thought about a RaspberryPi? With a simple cardboard case (see their forum), for a small amount you can use it as a NAS. Works fine for me ;-) Regards, Frank Op 20 jul. 2012 05:49 schreef Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org het

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-20 Thread Wookey
+++ 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.

modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-19 Thread Nicola Bernardini
Sorry list, I can imagine this question has been asked many times, but the answer changes with time and browsing this list and related resources I cannot find a sufficiently recent (let's say1 year) answer to it. I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my guess

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-19 Thread Hans Henry von Tresckow
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org wrote: Sorry list, I can imagine this question has been asked many times, but the answer changes with time and browsing this list and related resources I cannot find a sufficiently recent (let's say1 year)

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-19 Thread Nicola Bernardini
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:19:38PM -0700, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Nicola Bernardini n...@sme-ccppd.org wrote: Sorry list, I can imagine this question has been asked many times, but the answer changes with time and browsing this list and

Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

2012-07-19 Thread Matti Palmström
On 07/20/2012 05:42 AM, Nicola Bernardini wrote: 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.