2012/12/4 vordoo <vor...@yahoo.com>: > > On 2012-12-04 13:37, Mord Behar wrote: > > >> 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. > > Raspberry Pi takes care only of the CPU/board part not the price -in > time&money, of inefficiently running a bunch of old H.D's & there > controllers. > > In my view the small Raspberry Pi form is less significant in this case, > though it is the cool thing in town. I would advocate an Arm board more > similar to the W.D. Book & other designs. In IL, money wise, At less then > $200 you are probably better-of just baying it of the shelf, unless you need > the flexibility of your personal design (the education part can be done on a > VM ;-) Don't forget you can hack the WD Live, or get to the linux it runs (debian) and expand it... (Unless they locked it down more recently) Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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