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Comment on My Storage Problem by James

James — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:00:38 +0000

Oh, and btrfs doesn’t support a RAID5 equivalent.

Comment on My Storage Problem by Andrew F

Andrew F — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:13:17 +0000

Somewhere in the middle, I’ve got a Synology DS410 that I’m quite happy with. I’ve modified mine to just run Debian instead of their DSM distro.

One advantage of dedicated NAS hardware that I’d note is that it’ll idle down to considerably lower power usage: the DS410 idles around 15W, it’s tough to get anything besides a really wimpy Atom box to do that.

On the other hand, I’ve been having bad thoughts about upgrading to something like a Silmech R513…

Comment on My Storage Problem by James

James — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:55:45 +0000

The last btrfs system I used irreparably ate the entire file system after a few weeks. That was last year, though.

Comment on My Storage Problem by Ben Jencks

Ben Jencks — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:37:07 +0000

I’d go with the PC. It’s always nice to have a server around for random things; I run cacti on my file server so I can see my internet bandwidth usage. Have you considered btrfs instead of mdadm? I hear it’s reasonably stable these days; I’m planning on switching my file server to it once I upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 in a few months.

You could also get an external SATA RAID array and hook it to something like a fit-pc3. That would probably be lower power and still have the flexibility of a PC.

Comment on My Storage Problem by James

James — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:39:07 +0000

Good point about the repair-ability; I hadn’t considered that.

re: the msata thing, I could also achieve that in my laptop by using one of the many rail kits to install the 2.5″ HDD into the bay that currently contains the optical drive. I think I’m about ready for my old laptop to stop spinning for a while, though.

Comment on My Storage Problem by reacocard

reacocard — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:23:30 +0000

I’ve been planning on putting together something along the lines of #2 for myself for a while now (right now my HTPC is doing double-duty as NAS with my 3tb external), mostly for the reasons outlined already. However one downside of #1 you didn’t completely cover is that if the NAS device in #1 dies, your data is dead unless you can get your hands on another of the same device, since many (most?) of them have their own storage formats that nothing else can read. Replacing individual failed components in a custom PC is easier and cheaper, and in a pinch you can hook the drives up to basically any linux machine and read them.

Incidentally, I solved the storage/ssd issue in my most recent laptop by just having both. My thinkpad X220 supports this new ssd form factor called mSata, which is basically a way of putting a sata bus into a mini-pcie slot. Thus I now have a nice 80gb ssd for my OS and small files, and also a standard 320gb spinning disk for bulk storage.

Comment on Merry 2012 by spellman23

spellman23 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:17:43 +0000

Psh, “useful content” is overrated.

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Comment on n+1 years by cb

cb — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:06:42 +0000

I’m told that this fellows grandfather was a professional writer. It shows!

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