Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread Ira Abramov
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread Udi Finkelstein
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread Amos Shapira
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread vordoo
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-07 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
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

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-06 Thread vordoo
Short answer: - cheaper than dirt, or at least double digits, not triple (in dollars) Sorry this is not going to happen, adjust the figure come back later. Lookup one of the 'of the shelf' -W.D My Books, or whatever,

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-05 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Steve G. word...@gmail.com wrote: I am getting to a point that, between all the old computers I still own or use, the orphan hard drives from abandoned systems, and the dual boot laptops, I have a storage nightmare. I have photos, videos, articles, music,

Re: Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/10/5 Steve G. word...@gmail.com: I am getting to a point that, between all the old computers I still own or use, the orphan hard drives from abandoned systems, and the dual boot laptops, I have a storage nightmare. I have photos, videos, articles, music, everywhere, and it is getting to

Linux friendly NAS or networked drive/raid - perhaps wireless

2013-10-04 Thread Steve G.
I am getting to a point that, between all the old computers I still own or use, the orphan hard drives from abandoned systems, and the dual boot laptops, I have a storage nightmare. I have photos, videos, articles, music, everywhere, and it is getting to the point that I can't access files because