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On 30 Jan 2009, at 00:06, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been |
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> around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true. |
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Power consumption, too. I think some of the off-the-shelf mini-NAS use |
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a low-power MIPS processor. |
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I like a "real Linux" server rather than an off-the-shelf mini-NAS |
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because you can do so much more with it. I rip DVDs & download |
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torrents on the headless server, as this saves me having to leave my |
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workstation on overnight. |
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Unfortunately "all the other stuff" is a considerable reason I had to |
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rule out Solaris, which I would like to have used for its ZFS file- |
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system. I felt I probably wouldn't like the package manager, and I |
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didn't seem to be able to find supported hot-swap controllers. There's |
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just loads of stuff I know I'm more easily going to be able to find |
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help with on Linux. |
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But mini-NAS does really well for many people. I found the problem |
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with going it myself to be feature creep - I want room for plenty of |
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drives and once you've got a server running 24/7 there's always |
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something else you can "usefully" run on there. I ended up buying one |
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of these <http://www.tstcom.com/product_details.asp?id=4> and a 3ware |
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9500 RAID controller - this has turned out pretty expensive but I |
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think worth it to me, as it should last me a long time. I am just |
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about to build. |
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3ware's customer support, BTW, is second-to-none - if buying one of |
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their controllers on eBay ask the vendor to check the serial, as many |
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are still under 3ware's no-quibble 3-year warranty. My experience with |
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their tech support has been excellent, and will make them first choice |
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for hardware in the future. |
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Stroller. |