2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni <danshi...@gmail.com>: > Hello, Nadav, >> 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. > > What do you mean by "ARM-based server" here ? I don't sure > I understand. Does this product include some tiny ARM server? > Do you have access to this server by telnet/ssh, and is there a BSP > open source package ? I see you have ethernet connection there. > I look in WD site, and I don't see that they mention an ARM > based server there: > > http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280 > > > Can you please give a link/elaborate about the product you are talking about ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD_TV http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wd+live+debian
Basically it's a disk + server to handle cifs/nfs.... Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו > > rgs > DS > > For this price, I got both the 2TB hard-disk and a tiny (ARM-based) > server in one package. > > 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. >> >> -- >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
