Comments on: Network Attached Storage

By: hans

hans — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:51:52 +0000

As Afor seems to be busy again, here´s a link to a little “Beta Test” for our Future:
http://henrymakow.com/2013/03/Cyprus-A-Reminder-Currency-is-Theirs.html

By: hans

hans — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:46:43 +0000

Pretty sure I posted something like this already on another comment, but yeah.
The Future..
If they wouldn´t have shoved those crappy photo-lithography ICs down our throats, we´d probably have cool crystal based computers by now that wouldn´t instantly fry when a half decent lightning bolt hits nearby. Let alone a nuke or a good sized Solar CME shaking hands with our Ionosphere.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 02:11:22 +0000

Back to the Future – Vacuum tubes could be the future of computing

http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/05/vacuum-tubes-co.php

By: DGAF in Miami

DGAF in Miami — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:41:56 +0000

Obviously, yer Terabytes be too juicy for Google Cloud @ 20 pence/3TB/month (blueprints for GCHQ-London? Midget-donkey pr0n? Pirated Bill Burr stand-up?… lulz.)… but I get the seamless “talk to the air, everywhere” set-up you’re after w/ NAS. Sounds like you pay a hefty premium for American-branded ChiCom H/W over there… I can get that WD30EZRX for $148.39US=98.05GBP @ Best Buy brick & mortar, incl. sales tax… 6 mile round trip dodging illegal immigrants NOT incl.

Yellow Flag: WTH happened to your buddy Evil Penis? Except for the home page, his whole blog seems to have been EMPulsed… >:O

By: wimminz

wimminz — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:48:15 +0000

CAT5 cables will run gigabit quite happily… and I agree with you, gig-e blows 100 mbit away, but reality is another thing, I have an 5 port gig-e switch that all my “need it fast” stuff is on (router/main nas/main pc/laptop wired/ap) and a 16 port 100mbit switch for everything else… it’s a legacy world…lol

By: tweell

tweell — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:26:49 +0000

Why bother with 100mb ethernet? Cat 6 isn’t that expensive and gigabit switches can be found for less than 100 pounds. 100MB/sec is sooo much nicer when copying or transferring data.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:01:56 +0000

if you have the physical space, then a tower PC installed with linux will be your best value.

By: hans

hans — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:29:10 +0000

Jeez, what the heck are you guys doing to privately amass so much data?
I got me a nice cheap Blue-Ray Burner and if I need more space in goes the disk and out goes the 18Gigs.

Though I must admit I haven´t looked into that NAS business, but it sounds mighty convenient.

By: wimminz

wimminz — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:42:34 +0000

it’s a valid comment, but I am going to disagree with you, because that isn’t network attached storage, so you have to start playing with shares and stuff on that box, and keep that box on if you want to access it from anything else on your network, and if that box dies it could take your data with it.

For example, I use a small android utility called SyncMe, I walk in the house and the SGS3 and Note2 just log into the LAN and sync up everything that is new or changed since they left the LAN, no need to turn anything on or boot anything up.

Similarly if someone else comes around with a laptop or something, I can give them access to a shared folder on the NAS to dump or read stuff, without giving them access to or even powering up my main box…. useful for the likes of Autopatcher for instance, only once instance to update.

For ME, it is not about having that data on a HD somewhere, or on optical media somewhere, it is about it being on the LAN, available a gigabit speeds, at an instant’s notice.

That means I only need one copy of everything, on the NAS, and one backup of everything, which shrinks both installed disk / data footprints dramatically, backup sizes dramatically, and backup / restore speeds dramatically.

By: whatsnew

whatsnew — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:19:58 +0000

For tech people best option usually is not to use a separate NAS box. Get a nicer PC case with say 4-6 3.5in disk slots, and perhaps a 2-4 SATA PCI express card with a couple eSATA external sockets. A pretty good value box is:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2013/01/09/xigmatek-midgard-ii-review/1

Then you put in new empty larger disks, copy over, and remove the smaller disks; at each disks upgrade you get a disk 1.5x or 2.x the size of the last one.

So if you have a 500GB and 1TB disk, you get a 2TB disks, copy over the 500GB and get rid of it.