I, too, went down the old-PC-with-NAS-software route, which served me well
for years. (Still got it, somewhere.)
Power, noise and small(ish) PATA discs got to me in the end, so I bought a
Netgear ReadyNAS box and a couple of decent-sized SATA discs and have never
looked back. Silent, low power drain and (so far!) reliable.
Chris
On 31 January 2014 08:24, Steve Kirk <steve@???> wrote:
> On 30 January 2014 22:07:58 GMT, Ian Park <i.d.c.park@???> wrote:
> >On 30/01/14 18:51, Ally Biggs wrote:
> >> Just get a old PC whack a few decent sized drives in it and get
> >Freenas on there.
> >>
> >> I had it running on a old school pentium 3 server build it was
> >happily chugging along serving up files for over 2 years.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On 30 Jan 2014, at 18:21, "john" <jee@???>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> I abandoned NAS a long time ago as cost in-efficient.
> >>>
> >>> The way I go now is to use a SATA drive caddy - cost £12 to £20 and
> >use
> >>> Samba.
> >>>
> >>> Hard disk size. Your choice.
> >>>
> >>> the following will detect and mount the drive caddy disk.
> >>>
> >>> #!/bin/bash
> >>> ls /dev/sd?
> >>> for i in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan
> >>> do
> >>> echo "- - -" >> $i
> >>> done
> >>>
> >>> /sbin/sfdisk -s
> >>> ls /dev/sd?
> >>>
> >>> The first line of output is what is already mounted
> >>> The second line will give you what is mounted plus the new hard disk
> >>>
> >>> The following will unmount the disk when changing it.
> >>> #!/bin/bash
> >>> if [ $# != 1 ]; then
> >>> echo "Synopsis: stopsata.sh <drive>"
> >>> exit 1
> >>> fi
> >>> export DRIVE=$1
> >>> for i in $(mount | grep ${DRIVE} | awk '{print $1}'); do
> >>> echo Unmounting $i
> >>> umount $i
> >>> done
> >>> echo Powering down ${DRIVE}
> >>> echo 1 >> /sys/block/${DRIVE}/device/delete
> >>> echo You may now safely disconnect the drive
> >>>
> >>> example: sudo ./stopsata.sh sdc
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:33:31 +0000
> >>> DAWE C <the-labyrinth@???> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I would like a NAS at home, on which I can store lots of files and
> >>>> have them accessible from both Limux and Widnows. (I am trying to
> >>>> avoid the mistake I made w few years ago, when I got a network disc
> >>>> which needed a driver to access, so was only available from certain
> >>>> versions of Widnows!).
> >>>>
> >>>> Any recommendations from people?
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris
> >>>
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> >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
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd have to agree using an old machine can work but for me is too big and
> too power hungry these days.
>
> If you're interested in putting something together yourself (e.g.
> installing and configuring a Linux install) then you could do a lot worse
> than check out the HP MicroServer. I'm very pleased with mine and
> frequently available in a cash back deal. No link to hand but Google will
> easily find it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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>
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