Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Shimshoni
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?

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni : > 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 pr

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Moish wrote: > On 04/12/2012 21:27, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: >> >> 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 > > Better

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: All of the above is probably negligible compared to two important arguments that have already been mentioned: 1) as a home appliance there are better, more economical, and - most importantly! - quieter solutions for a modest price; 2) tinkering with such a heterogeneous s

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's.

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Udi Finkelstein
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31314-wd-my-book-live-reviewed http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/mybook-live It has a 1GHz ARM and 256MB of RAM (No USB though). Udi On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hello, Nadav, > > Instead, I decided to buy a 2-terabyte WD M

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2012/12/5 vordoo : > > On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several > professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork > of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's. > > Geoff > > Yep, I like OpenIndiana/

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread vordoo
On 2012-12-05 12:31, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: As a word of warning, it is usually better to link to the actual paper (quite a famous one in this case), http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf, and not to a blog about it by someone who mixes up mean and median (he i

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > Since those "new" disks have not been around long enough for long term > failure statistics, I would be careful using the old ones. The failure statistics papers I know of predate the Thai flood and so are applicable to the older di

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:40 PM, vordoo wrote: > As a word of warning ;-) I actually prefer the blog link as I can easily > Google the original "famous paper". This way I got to read a good blog > sum-up + threads on the paper too. I was seriously put off by the guy's attempt to explain what MTBF

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Josh Roden
A few years ago I was very disappointed when I bought a WD My Book and found out that it was only able to do 3MB a sec max - real bummer. Josh On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012, David Suna wrote about "Home made NAS": > > I have a bunch of old machine

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Nadav Har'El
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" h

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread David Suna
On 12/4/2012 10:43 AM, David Suna wrote: 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 / NAS on our home network. There would probably be

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Moish
On 05/12/2012 12:11, E.S. Rosenberg wrote: 2012/12/5 Dan Shimshoni : 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

greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread sara fink
Someone knows if there is a greasemonkey script for iba.org.il site? ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread Mord Behar
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, sara fink wrote: > Someone knows if there is a greasemonkey script for iba.org.il site? > My Greasefire says no. At least not anything useful. What, in particular, do you want a script to do? > > ___ > Linux-il mailing

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Ori Berger
On 12/05/2012 08:00 AM, Moish wrote: I use WD MyBook Duo 2x3T. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=620 Transfer rate more than enough for HD over N-wireless network. On A side note: Above storage is used (among other devices) by two Apple Tv 2 (jb with Xbmc) and for fun, I will add a

Re: greaskmonkey for iba site

2012-12-05 Thread sara fink
to play programs (in this case it's audio). It requires flash by adobe. I found a very useful script called free youtube that works in combination with greasemonkey and shows video without shockwave/adobe flash. The same goes for vimeo and mako site. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/34765 http:

Re: Home made NAS

2012-12-05 Thread Moish
On 05/12/2012 23:55, Ori Berger wrote: On 12/05/2012 08:00 AM, Moish wrote: I use WD MyBook Duo 2x3T. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=620 Transfer rate more than enough for HD over N-wireless network. On A side note: Above storage is used (among other devices) by two Apple Tv 2