On 14 January 2013 18:34, Paul Gear <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/13/2013 01:42 PM, Tom Sparks wrote: > >> ... >>> >>> based on an old thread I asked, Paul replied with: >>> >>> "i can vouch for the QNAP TS-219P and the HP >>> ProLiant Microserver as good options. The former is a very small, quiet >>> 2-bay NAS - on mine i wiped the factory firmware on and installed Debian >>> squeeze. It's ARM-based, so its CPU power is not great, but it does the >>> job. The latter is an x86-64-compatible server with 4 SATA bays and 1 >>> DVD-ROM bay. It has a dual-core AMD CPU and so packs a pretty good >>> punch. It's slightly larger and slightly louder than the QNAP, but is >>> much cheaper, more powerful, and more expandable." - >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/**archives/ubuntu-au/2012-**January/007675.html<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2012-January/007675.html> >>> >> > It's nice to be quoted a year after the fact and find the advice still > relevant. :-D > > I would still say the same, although given what i'm doing with my systems > nowadays, the 512 MB RAM limitation on the QNAP and the price advantage of > the HP mean that i'm using the HPs more. I just deployed one as a backup > server at a client site last week, with 4 x 3 TB drives in RAID 5. It's > still building the RAID set and copying files in from an old system, so > it's not a speed demon, but it does the job nicely. > > Paul > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > > They look like an intriguing piece of hardware. The prices have dropped a lot since I last looked at them and are making me wonder. I do have three questions for those who own them though, * how loud are they in real world applications? * what sort of network throughput do you see? * any surprises in the hardware running Ubuntu?
If anyone has any insight I'd be interested, I'm looking for a good balance between power consumption and enough power to run a couple of other things that a basic NAS can't do. -- Regards, Jared Norris https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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