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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] NAS boxes

In another post, Spencer mentions hot running. Agreed.
About BIOS upgrade, I don't think I did that. I'm not home until mid-Feb, so cannot check BIOS version (unit behind firewall). Maybe my unit was shipped a bit later than yours. I know I did one BIOS upgrade on something, but I don't think it was the Koolu. 

This seems to be of sufficient interest to suggest as a meeting topic.
Maybe OCLUG could do a "design project" where we choose parts and set them up and report the setup and provide image of the s/w. It looks like there are several folk interested. 

Cheers, JN

On 13-01-07 03:04 PM, Peter Meyer wrote:

Hi:

I've also had a Koolu box running for over 4+ years.  It continues to work
well as a Samba/DHCP/DNS/WINS/DLNA/Squeezebox/Printer server.  It has just
barely enough capacity when run as a ubuntu server.  It is beginning to get
a bit "long in the tooth".  I am also looking for a separate/combined box
can also be a decent reliable/disk redundent low powered file server for a
Windoze/Linux/Mac environment.

I'd be interested in ideas posted here.  I've heard some good things about
FreeNas and want to figure out what complementary hardware to assemble for
it.

JN:  Where did you find the bios upgrade to get past the Koolu's 80G disk
limit?  A disk failure has been my biggest concern with this box.

Peter

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    1. Recommendations for home NAS (Martin Hicks)
    2. Re: Recommendations for home NAS (Prof J C Nash (U30A))
    3. Re: Recommendations for home NAS (Aidan Van Dyk)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Martin Hicks <mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org>
To: OCLUG tech list <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>
Cc:
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:02:26 -0500
Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS
Hi,

I've been running a full-sized PC in a 2U rackmount case in my basement for
years and years and am finding that I no longer use it except as a file
server for movies and music and as a place to copy files for backup
purposes.

Can someone recommend a small machine that has:

1) ability to run linux (I think I'd prefer flash-based OS, with openWRT or
something similar)

2) either slots for two 3.5" disks or external connection ability
(USB/ESata) for data volumes, as I'd like to RAID-1 my data-holding disks

It could also be a wireless router / gateway / switch, but that isn't
mandatory since I have an ancient WRT54GS that still does the job quite
capably.

Thanks,
mh

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Bork Consulting Inc.     |   +1 (613) 266-2296



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>
To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca
Cc:
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:13:27 -0500
Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS
I've run a Koolu box for about 4 years. Claim is 15w only. Had a built-in
80g IDE drive, now replaced with 320G. 4 USBs, Ethernet, video,
and sound. I run Lucid-server on it. Unfortunately, I don't think
available.

I'd also be interested in results Martin finds, and suspect there must be
some boxes similar to the Koolu out there, possibly even as small as a
Raspberry Pi if one didn't need too much performance.

JN


On 13-01-07 10:02 AM, Martin Hicks wrote:


Hi,

I've been running a full-sized PC in a 2U rackmount case in my basement
for
years and years and am finding that I no longer use it except as a file
server for movies and music and as a place to copy files for backup
purposes.

Can someone recommend a small machine that has:

1) ability to run linux (I think I'd prefer flash-based OS, with openWRT
or
something similar)

2) either slots for two 3.5" disks or external connection ability
(USB/ESata) for data volumes, as I'd like to RAID-1 my data-holding disks

It could also be a wireless router / gateway / switch, but that isn't
mandatory since I have an ancient WRT54GS that still does the job quite
capably.

Thanks,
mh





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From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan [ at ] highrise [ dot ] ca>
To: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>
Cc: linux <linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:55:03 -0500
Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS
I've also got a bunch of servers turned off, only one left on...

I'ld love to replace it with somehting small and lower power... My
requirements are:
1) at least 2 eSATA ports
2) Sata controller supports PM on eSATA
3) Gbit NIC
4) Enough horsepower to process close 100MB/s between eSATA and the network
via NFS and CIFS

Ya, nothing major ;-)

a.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca

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