Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 12:18 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > RAID boxes have some useful capabilities like staging power to drives > on startup. There are use cases that do trivial computations on > 1000's of files where it would be really nice to have lots of cheap > compute nodes, each with a

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 04:47, J.Witvliet--- via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > Just a final thought…. > Ever contemplated about a tiny storage ceph-cluster, each disk connected > to an R-pi? > No spofs, and easier to maintain and upgrade… > > RAID boxes have some useful capabi

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-31 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
From: "George N. White III" mailto:gnw...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursday, 23 December 2021 at 00:02:02 To: "Community support for Fedora users" mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> Subject: Re: NAS purchase advice On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 05:47, Walter Cazzola ma

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 at 05:47, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedoers, > > I'm planning to buy a NAS to backup my Linux boxes. I've spent few days at > looking for it on the Internet but I've some hard time to find a NAS that > fits > my needs. > > I intend to use it both the backup my data but also

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 17:05, Roger Heflin wrote: > Usually a spinning disk need about 1amp at 12v to spin up each disk. I > have had to upsize a power supply because the original ps was no longer > quit big enough after the disks had aged and increased startup current > closer to the max specif

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread Roger Heflin
Usually a spinning disk need about 1amp at 12v to spin up each disk. I have had to upsize a power supply because the original ps was no longer quit big enough after the disks had aged and increased startup current closer to the max specified for the disk. Max x disks was a few amps over the ps ra

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 10:36, Tim via users wrote: > On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 10:45 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > [...] It's scary when you see PCs with 500 watt power supplies (or the > hardware manuals saying you need one), but they don't use 500 watts all > the time, if at all. It's just their

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:37 PM Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 12/3/21 23:30, Stephane Travostino wrote: > > That's why out-of-the-box support for Docker is a life saver on my Synolog > > Hi! > > I've had a Synology with 4 x 4TB drive for about 4 years and am very > happy with it. Please note howev

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-22 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 10:45 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > One of the surprises I got from building a basic server out of a > standard motherboard was its relatively low power usage (I measured > it, I'm not going by the labels on the equipment). An older message, but I realised I didn't say what m

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-04 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 03.12.2021 um 17:30 schrieb Stephane Travostino : > > That's why out-of-the-box support for Docker is a life saver on my Synology. > I'm running plenty of unsupported software that are portable to any other > linux system of the same architecture. Yes, indeed. My Synology supports Docker

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-03 Thread Frederic Muller
On 12/3/21 23:30, Stephane Travostino wrote: That's why out-of-the-box support for Docker is a life saver on my Synolog Hi! I've had a Synology with 4 x 4TB drive for about 4 years and am very happy with it. Please note however that not all Synology NASes support Docker. Mine doesn't. So t

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-03 Thread Stephane Travostino
On Fri, 3 Dec 2021, at 11:47, Peter Boy wrote: > Personally, I've been using various Synology models for > longer as a decade now at about the same purposes as you are planning > (and some more, e.g. a mail hub, ebook library, etc), currently a DS > 918+ with SSD cache. But keep in mind, it's ba

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-03 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 02.12.2021 um 10:46 schrieb Walter Cazzola : > > From your experience do you have some brand/model to suggest? Or something > that I should consider that I didn't list? According to your list you may need rather a „full blown“ NAS like QNap or Synology. Both have a lot of additional serve

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 15:15 +0100, Germano Massullo wrote: > My solution > https://github.com/Germano0/reliable-data-storage-project/blob/master/index.md > One of the surprises I got from building a basic server out of a standard motherboard was its relatively low power usage (I measured it, I'm

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 2, 2021, at 05:06, Stephane Travostino wrote: > > * Exports via WebDAV, NFS, SMB, AFS out of the box I was excited they supported the Andrew File System, but I looked and I think you mean AFP (AppleShare). -- Jonathan Billings ___ users maili

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Joe Wulf via users
I've used Thecus NAS's for many years, recommended them to co-workers and friends seeking the same kinds of solutions.  Back when I was looking to go way beyond local USB-connected hard drives for my home network, I did my own research into what existed for NAS solutions at the time (2010-2011)

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Roger Heflin
I have always built my own and ran it on the main machine I use for other services (homeassistant, security cams, wind speed monitoring). The canned solutions have less upfront setup but if/when anything goes wrong generally you are on your own, and you don't have any idea how the vendor setup it

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:46:30 +0100 (CET) Walter Cazzola wrote: > From your experience do you have some brand/model to suggest? Or something > that I should consider that I didn't list? I'm not sure it hits all your points, but I have a NAS I made from an old PC that happened to have a lot of disk

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Germano Massullo
My solution https://github.com/Germano0/reliable-data-storage-project/blob/master/index.md ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fe

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread wwp
Hello, On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:02:39 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 10:46 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: > >- Linux compliant ie., > >- it should be formatted in ext3/4 or other *nix file system > > to maintain all the linux file details such as access rights, > >

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread wwp
Hello Walter, On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:05:19 + "Stephane Travostino" wrote: > I've been running a Synology NAS (DS718+ with two 1TB SSDs) for the past 2 > years and I'm pleased with it. > > It's mostly closed source but: > * Provides SSH access (with root), so I run Docker on it and all my

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-12-02 at 10:46 +0100, Walter Cazzola wrote: >- Linux compliant ie., >- it should be formatted in ext3/4 or other *nix file system > to maintain all the linux file details such as access rights, > attributes, links, name lengths/characters, ... I used to use WD MyBook and M

Re: NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Stephane Travostino
Hello Walter, I've been running a Synology NAS (DS718+ with two 1TB SSDs) for the past 2 years and I'm pleased with it. It's mostly closed source but: * Provides SSH access (with root), so I run Docker on it and all my media management tools * Runs on btrfs (https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm/B

NAS purchase advice

2021-12-02 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedoers, I'm planning to buy a NAS to backup my Linux boxes. I've spent few days at looking for it on the Internet but I've some hard time to find a NAS that fits my needs. I intend to use it both the backup my data but also to keep consistent the data on several linux-boxes. That is, the d