Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 4/04/2013 8:37 PM, Chris Davies wrote: Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L series that are just being replaced). I bought mine for about £120 a couple of months ago. Add a pair of 3TB disks also at £100 each. Add more memory (it comes with 2GB; I replaced that with

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/04/2013 6:49 AM, Celejar wrote: FWIW, I've been running Debian Wheezy on a Seagate Go Flex Net (STAK100 - http://projects.doozan.com/debian/) for a while, with pretty good results. It's a Kirkwood system with 128MB RAM, 256MB NAND, 2 SATA connectors, 1 USB port and Gigabit ethernet

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:49:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Hi, On 5/04/2013 6:49 AM, Celejar wrote: FWIW, I've been running Debian Wheezy on a Seagate Go Flex Net (STAK100 - http://projects.doozan.com/debian/) for a while, with pretty good results.

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote: As above, the iomega ix2-200 meets these requirements, and I only paid about AUD$280 for mine including 2x1TB disks 2 years ago. You can probably get them even cheaper these days. They were much cheaper than equivalent QNap or Synology

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Nigel Roberts
On 04/04/2013, at 6:24 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Nigel Roberts wrote: As above, the iomega ix2-200 meets these requirements, and I only paid about AUD$280 for mine including 2x1TB disks 2 years ago. You can probably get them even cheaper

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L series that are just being

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 4, 2013, at 2:37 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? Roll your own with an HP Proliant

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:38:48 +1300 Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote: On 4 April 2013 14:05, Nigel Roberts ni...@nobiscuit.com wrote: Marvell Kirkwood SoC Is it the SoC or the Switch chipset doing the heavy lifting there? What conditions do you get that throughput? The Kirkwood

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/3/2013 7:00 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS, capacity in the

NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? I'm looking for a device that can export a RAID-1, either ext4 or ZFS, capacity in the 1-3TB range (two disks, each of that

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
You are best to build your own, given that the majority of cheap NAS boxes use Freescale ARM or even MIP's chips. The poor little buses in these things are barely able to transport between 10-50mbit between the CPU and attached storage devices. So your performance is always going to be marginal.

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Nigel Roberts
On 04/04/2013, at 11:21 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling j...@aenertia.net wrote: You are best to build your own, given that the majority of cheap NAS boxes use Freescale ARM or even MIP's chips. The poor little buses in these things are barely able to transport between 10-50mbit between the CPU and

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-03 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
On 4 April 2013 14:05, Nigel Roberts ni...@nobiscuit.com wrote: Marvell Kirkwood SoC Is it the SoC or the Switch chipset doing the heavy lifting there? What conditions do you get that throughput? The Kirkwood SoC's are a bit better than some of the rubbish out there, it is important to note