Quoting Steve G., from the post of Fri, 04 Oct:
So I am thinking, maybe I should get an external network drive, or raid, or
NAS, and use it to consolidate my drive and keep all my files in one place
from now onward.
I have yet to see a cheap hardware off-the-shelf NAS that can beat a PC
in
Using a PC as a server has several drawbacks:
1. Size
2. Power consumption
A typical ARM based NAS will usually beat a PC in both categories.
BTW, for backing up pictures, if you don't use the RAW file format, you can
use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark all your files
Still beta but I've just heard about it and it got me thinking about
something like this for myself one day: https://arkos.io/
The main problem I see with running my own server is that it depends on my
home ADSL line. Most of the time it shouldn't be a major problem but still
access will be
I did the math once, not worth it,
חפרתי קצת לגבי לוחות שלא זוללים הרבה חשמל ומצאתי כמה
אבל היתה לי עכשיו שיחה ממש מעניינת עם בחור בשם יריב מאתר plonter
הבחור לא איש שיווק אבל הוא תפר לי משהו יפיפיה מארז מעוצב ב-1500
אני יכול לשחק טיפה עם הלוח אם ולקחת משהו חזק יותר אם צריך
עוד משהו שיצא
DO NOT USE RAID 5, Go for
1, 6, or 10 :
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
use flickr which offers free storage up to 1TB (you can mark
all your files private if you want)...
Marked or not, if you flickr privet it will not
There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available...
Intel Atom boards
AMD E-series
ARM stuff (pandaboard, beagleboard, and many more)
So you can build your own low-power solution that will use in the area
of 33W (though if you have lot's of disks I really don't see how you
would get that
Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed
for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin
them down.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote:
There are plenty of cheap low-power mainboards available...
Intel
2013/10/7 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com:
Are the drives spinning all the time? If the drives are not accessed
for some time (say, one hour) then I would expect the device to spin
them down.
Well that depends on the firmware/OS and the optimizations you add...
In prebuilt stuff I would also
I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read
that MTP is not reliably supported.
There is a partial solutions if your phone is rooted (although I
haven't tried it yet). Look at USB Mass Storage Enabler:
