carmen wrote:
On Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 12:15:12PM -1000, david wrote:
carmen wrote:
On Fri Mar 23, 2007 at 06:33:39PM +0000, Michael TD Nelson wrote:
Hi,
I have an idea in mind for a product which I'd like to own. Basically, I'd like to be able to buy an enclosure that takes two off-the-shelf hard discs (IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS, whatever...) and
connects to my LAN with an ethernet cable (gigabit preferred, but 10/100 is acceptable).
the most popular route seems to be a network attached linux device like NSLU2 http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
afaik it doesnt have internal storage of your own, and youre expected to plug in firewire devices, each with their own enclosure. but its chaep, and runs linux fast enough to handle rtorrent, NFS,
smb, daapd and the like
theres similar devicse from netgear/belkin/etc. most can be made to run linux
I do just fine using an old midtower system. Upgrading storage is easier than many of the proprietary NAS devices.
my shuttle adds $15 a month to my electric bill. all it really does is hold 2 drives and do some light services which the 266 MHz XScale would be able to handle. i should buy an NSLU2 right now, it will pay for itself in 4 months..
Yup, that's why I've considered replacing my box with such a thing. But
when I needed to add storage to the box, a 200GB HD was only about $70.
I get around the electric consumption by not having the server on all
the time.
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David
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