On Wed, Dec 05, 2012, Dan Shimshoni wrote about "Re: Home made NAS": > 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?
The WD My Book Live (you can look it up on the Web...) is a small device, about twice the size of a hard disk. You plug it to the electricity, and to the network (Ethernet). Inside it it contains a hard disk (you don't need to, and can't, buy it separately), and some sort of processor running prepackaged software which serves the files with NFS or SMB, presents a Web interface, and so on. While I heard the prepackaged software is based on Linux, I never tried to "hack" it and modify the software or verify the type of processor. Frankly, I don't really care about the processor or software - I already have a general-purpose desktop for doing everything else, and all I need this NAS to do is NAS, which it already does well. > Do you have access to this server by telnet/ssh, and is there a BSP > open source package ? I have no idea. I assume that some hobbyists already managed to hack this device, but like I said, I never really cared - it already does pretty well everything I wanted to do. > 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: It obviously has *some* processor - it's a full-fleged filesystem, HTTP, SMB and NFS servers. I thought it was ARM but I'm no longer sure: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Digital_My_Book, "My Book Live uses Applied Micro APM82181 processor working at 1 GHz and has 256 MB of RAM." Apparently you're right - it's not ARM but actually, believe it or not, a type of powerpc. But who cares - the only thing important is that it runs Linux :-) A short Google search turns up that people have indeed been able to log into the Linux running on this device, > http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=280 > > Can you please give a link/elaborate about the product you are talking about ? Here the link to my review on Amazon of the 2TB model: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1ABMTXISNZY6M/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm A 3 TB model is already available, and if you have patience you may get it for as low as $160 (last week on B&H...). You can also get a two-disk version (with RAID support), with 4-8 TB versions (the 8 TB one was released yesterday, and contains WD's newly announced 4 TB disks). -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Dec 5 2012, 21 Kislev 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |You do not need a parachute to skydive. http://nadav.harel.org.il |You only need one to skydive twice. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
