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| 703298 | 2008-09-09 06:00:00 | Yep- if you have an old PC that works laying around gathering dust, put it to good use - they make good NAS storage devices, dont need to have a large CPU or RAM - One I have which I used to use before I got WHS was about a whooping Celeron 1.0 with about 256 Mb memory. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 703299 | 2008-09-09 09:01:00 | Yep- if you have an old PC that works laying around gathering dust, put it to good use - they make good NAS storage devices, dont need to have a large CPU or RAM - One I have which I used to use before I got WHS was about a whooping Celeron 1.0 with about 256 Mb memory. Guys/ladies, thanks :D I have also thought about doing that with my old machine, being old though is not necessarily the best way for keeping backups and on top of that, my machine is very noisy. I expect, or would like, that it can work for backup for my MBP(maybe superduper) and also for my Vm(work) . On top of that, if possible, would be good to have it as a print server. Just that I'm not sure if that would work with my Canon S6300? I'm just about convinced about the nas200. regards NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 703300 | 2008-09-09 10:02:00 | I have one of these. More of a glorified external HDD than a NAS imo www.maxtor.com And to be honest its rather underwhelming, It loves to dump its IP configuration if it looses power and can be quite a pesky little critter to reconfigure. the feature set is nothing to write home about either. I recently had a need to increase the disk space available to my in house LAN, i looked at several different NAS solutions, but in the end i ended up building a little dual core box, onboard vid, lan mobo+4gb ram with a big case and stuck 1tb drives into it. Much more in the way of options and functionality, and cost around $550 all up which isnt much more than a decent NAS. |
kersonan (13264) | ||
| 703301 | 2008-09-09 20:33:00 | Hi kersonan, thanks I would have an old box where the mobo has died. Due to the age (PSU) the noise is a factor. I'm just much more aware of the noise since I moved from another old P4 to a MBP. I guess it could be placed in another room(wireless) and then I would need to find an option for the interface as it would not have a screen?? Another detail is that I would like to make the Canon s6300 printer available for the network. So that would not work with having the box in another room. Any thoughts on that? |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 703302 | 2008-09-10 02:19:00 | Hi kersonan, thanks I would have an old box where the mobo has died. Due to the age (PSU) the noise is a factor. I'm just much more aware of the noise since I moved from another old P4 to a MBP. I guess it could be placed in another room(wireless) and then I would need to find an option for the interface as it would not have a screen?? Another detail is that I would like to make the Canon s6300 printer available for the network. So that would not work with having the box in another room. Any thoughts on that? I've found most of the noise can be solved by pulling the PSU out and cleaning the fan blades and giving the fan a bit of a wiggle to make sure its on its bearings properly, Often an airduster can from DSE is enough to do the job, Please exercise caution if working inside a PSU, they can be quite stingy...... Placement in another room and no screen no problem, Use VNC (Tight VNC) or windows remote desktop to name a couple of examples. You could also look at Ethernet over Power Adaptors www.activecatalog.co.nz I use these at home to feed the main computer room upstairs from the router downstairs, I use Wifi as well but not for that link, works really well and its a cool toy :P Printer wise, these are an option (this is a pricey one there are way cheaper options) www.activecatalog.co.nz Hope thats of some help. |
kersonan (13264) | ||
| 703303 | 2008-09-10 02:37:00 | I use one of these (www.dlink.com) D-Link NAS 323 w\ 750Gb RAID 1. It take a couple of seconds to spin up if you have it on power saving mode, however you need a gigabyte backbone for your network to get full speed out of the 1000 NIC on it. This actually has good security, print server and media sharing, FTP server. I have it formatted in ext so I can store ESX vmdk's on it with the big file sizes... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 703304 | 2008-09-10 04:32:00 | I use one of these (www.dlink.com) D-Link NAS 323 w\ 750Gb RAID 1. It take a couple of seconds to spin up if you have it on power saving mode, however you need a gigabyte backbone for your network to get full speed out of the 1000 NIC on it. This actually has good security, print server and media sharing, FTP server. I have it formatted in ext so I can store ESX vmdk's on it with the big file sizes... SolMiester,Thanks So if I would format ext (250GB)for the MBP, could I also format the other part of one drive(250GB) in NTFS for backup files of the guest VM and be raid? Or is it so that both drives have to be either ntfs or ext so that raid would work? Obviously a USB printer could be shared across the network, which I am looking for. Any other problems with it? edit: I have just been reading about firmware problems on dsl reports , have you had any? |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 703305 | 2008-09-10 06:18:00 | SolMiester,Thanks So if I would format ext (250GB)for the MBP, could I also format the other part of one drive(250GB) in NTFS for backup files of the guest VM and be raid? Or is it so that both drives have to be either ntfs or ext so that raid would work? Obviously a USB printer could be shared across the network, which I am looking for. Any other problems with it? edit: I have just been reading about firmware problems on dsl reports , have you had any? Not too sure what you are getting at there mate, however, i'll try my best. Any RAID config's are independance to format used. you could format all in ext like i have and still access thru a windows shell via mapping to a share on the NASbox. However in order to SCP esx vmdk's, you will need the ext format, not ntfs, as depending on virtual disk size, you could hit NTFS limits....will, i do at work. edit - what sort of problems, i have had mapping issues where a known acc pw doesnt work, but have resolved that... |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 703306 | 2008-09-10 09:02:00 | Solmiester, thanks. the problems are just things I have seen here (www.dslreports.com) after typing in the type of nas. The question about raid was;can I backup the osx system and the vm in separate files so I could access whichever one I want if I have to? Say can I backup my guest files with SyncbackSe to the nas and backup the osx with superduper to the same. Do you get what I mean? NT |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 703307 | 2008-09-10 10:23:00 | Solmiester, thanks. the problems are just things I have seen here (www.dslreports.com) after typing in the type of nas. The question about raid was;can I backup the osx system and the vm in separate files so I could access whichever one I want if I have to? Say can I backup my guest files with SyncbackSe to the nas and backup the osx with superduper to the same. Do you get what I mean? NT yes of course... |
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