On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS": > > I have a bunch of old machines lying around which are currently just > > collecting dust. I would like to collect the disks from all of > > them, put them together into a single server to act as a file server > > A couple of years I started doing something similar to what you are > planning. > I took an old computer, and stuck in it a bunch of hard disks I had from > previous years - one was 1 terabyte, another 300 gigabyte, and a third > 80 gigabytes. The computer ran Linux, and served files (mostly CDs and > DVDs) > on my home network with NFS and Samba. > > But then I realized how annoying this setup was: the computer was very big, > noisy, and had to be on all the time. The old disks (especially the 80 > gigabytes) were a joke, and I all three disks summed together were > smaller than a just new disk I could buy. > > Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD My Book Live for $160. > > For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based) > server in one package. The package is 10 times smaller than my old > computer, > nearly silent, and uses up less electricity, and came preconfigured with > the server software (it runs Linux, but you don't have direct access to > it). > > So in my opinion, unless you're completely broke, and/or treating this > as nothing more than an educational experience, building a NAS out of > old equipment is waste of your energy. > Unless you hook them up to a Raspberry Pi. That is silent, takes very little electricity and can probably do what you want. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Dec 4 2012, 20 Kislev > 5773 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If you notice this notice, you'll > notice > http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's not worth noticing but is > noticable. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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