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identikit posted:I want to get Nexentastor running and I was wondering what's the smallest size I can get away with for the "2 identical relatively small disks for high-availability system folder"? Could I possibly use 2 compact flash cards? I'm also interested in this. I looked somewhat closely at the documentation, but there isn't anything more specific than the line you quoted. Is anyone running a NexentaStor system who can tell us how big the base system is? On a more general note, how do CF cards and other non-SSD flash media devices hold up running a system not specifically designed for them? What I mean is if I installed a generic Ubuntu server on a usb flash drive, would the normal system logging and temp file stuff cause the disk to use up it's write cycles at any appreciable rate? I assume that distros designed for embedded flash systems do their read/write things in ramdisks.
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Any recommendations for a RAID 5 device that supports different sized disks? Yeah, I know they all do, I want one that uses the whole thing though. I'd just like to buy a drive now and then and swap out the smallest. A drobo would be fine if only it was network attached and supported rsync. NAS or card, doesn't matter. It's for home use, so the ReadyNAS NV+ is out of my price range.
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Jun 16, 2008 20:26
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antek posted:What options do I have (that don't cost a lot of money)? Grab a few 5.25 -> 3.5 drive bay adapters to space your drives out.
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Jun 20, 2008 05:59
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Combat Pretzel posted:What do you mean by that? I think he's asking if it will spin down the drives if he goes on vacation for a week and doesn't use the NAS. Mounting with noatime solves the second issue.
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Aug 23, 2008 04:43
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Does anyone know of an atom board with GigE and at least 4 Sata ports? I remember hearing about one when the atom first launched, but can't seem to find one. I guess my best bet is waiting for the D945GCLF2 and putting a cheap 2xSata card in it?
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Sep 11, 2008 16:48
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Does anyone know if three really is the minimum number of disks in a linux software raid 5 setup? It seems that with two it would just resemble a slow, overly complicated mirroring setup. I ask because NCIX always has a limit of two on most of their hard drive sales and wouldn't mind spreading the cost out.
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Sep 14, 2008 19:28
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Thanks. I wanted to end up with a four disk RAID 5 setup wanted to start with the cheapest setup I could. I realize it looks like a crazy question because I always assumed parity was distributed across the disks, not on a dedicated drive. Is it just me who thinks it's weird that there isn't a widespread standard for distributed parity and multisized volumes? You should be able to throw a 1TB and a 500GB drive in a system and get 500GB of usable space. Throw another 500GB in and it should go to 1 TB.
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Sep 15, 2008 06:27
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ParanoiaComplex posted:Posting to let people know about another potential home NAS case with hotswap drive bays: That case looks great. Please do post your impressions. The Chenbro one is a little too pricey for my blood. The case shouldn't be the most expensive component of a system!
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Oct 7, 2008 04:52
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Uziel posted:I am looking to build a small NAS for storage and backup of our baby photos, etc. The DNS-323 or even the DNS-321 would be fine for your purposes. Both support UPnP sharing and drive mirroring, but the 321 doesn't have a built in torrent client. The 321 is $99 at newegg before drives and is easier than getting another Windows machine to do something similar. Uh but honestly burn a DVD or two of your baby photos and send them to your parents or best friend or something.
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FunkyUnderpants posted:Quick heads up, guys - on the first page it mentions the DLink DNS-323 as a well-known/goon-respected NAS, but Newegg now lists it as discontinued. It looks like the DNS-321 is the new and cheaper replacement, oddly enough. (who hears of model numbers going backwards?) I have a DNS-321. You can run the 323 hacks still and the only thing I noticed it was missing before I decided it would be fine was a USB port for connecting an external drive. File system doesn't matter because you're using this thing over the network.
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Oct 25, 2009 23:15
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frogbs posted:I can drag and drop just fine, its just that I thought RSYNC required me to configure RSYNC on the volume to be backed up, if it doesn't then that is great for me, perhaps I am just misinformed...? It will treat it like a normal filesystem, but might be very inefficient by default. Play with the options and do small test runs first.
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Nov 18, 2009 08:37
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Frinkahedron posted:If I throw them into a Synology 210j I should still do this, correct? Check the Synology forums and FAQs. I think they support some "green" drives.
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what is this posted:It's mdadm linux software RAID, so mixed model drives should be fine. It's not best practice, but I wouldn't say they can't be done. I don't know, might actually be a good thing -- they probably won't all fail at the same time.
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