Raspberry Pis make very slow NAS drives as both the HDD and Ethernet port
are on the same USB bus.
I quite like using the HP microserver as a nas, takes up to 5 HDD (4 in
easy to remove caddies) fairly low power conspired to most desktop PCs,
very compact and very cheap, normally about £100-200.
On 31 Jan 2014 07:08, "Owain Clarke" <simbobo@???> wrote:
>
> On 30/01/14 22:07, Ian Park wrote:
>
> Yes, for a while I went down the road of sticking some drives in an old
>> PC and running a Debian server installation; however the NAS has the dual
>> advantage of being a lot more compact than even a low-profile desktop case
>> (which you'd be pushed to get a couple of hard drives in), ans much lower
>> power consumption (significant if you're going to keep it running most of
>> the time).
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Excuse my ignorance, but has anyone tried using a Raspberry Pi with
> connected hard drive? How would this compare for power consumption?
>
> Owain
>
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