2012/12/4 Baruch Shpirer <bar...@shpirer.com>: > Too many ways to do this but if you consider the data you are going to put > on this nas valueable and the hw you are talking about is 2+yrs old then you > better off buying new > > With old hw you can never be sure its going to come up next time and basicly > nothing is promised, but for sure stuff can still work for ever with some > miracle and a luck dragon.. According to research done by google and also in my experience a normal harddisk (spinner) that has functioned without failures for 3 years will generally last for a very long time.... > > On Dec 4, 2012 8:36 AM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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