[Gllug] Portable and network storage.

[Hari Sekhon]

Gllug wrote:
> I am looking to upgrade my Raid array at home which currently rund on a 
> pair of IDE disks on solaris (raided).
>
> I am thinking that there is a simpler (and cheeper) way to have storage 
> than a standard PC does anybody have any suggestions or recomendations?
>
> I am thinking along the lines of the raid version of the WD My Book® 
> World Edition� II (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=340)
>
> My requirements would be
>
> RAIDed.
> Ethertnet connection with SMB accessability.
> Hackable to the extent that it runs something like linux and you can get 
> at it.
> User servicable
>
> In addition advantages would be
> Wireless
> DHCPD server
I'm also interested in this, I stopped running one Linux server with 
Raid5 at home a while ago because of the new wave of energy concerns so 
I would also like to find a very low power cheap to run (and buy 
hopefully) box.

I went around testing power consumption: you can burn 100-200+ Watts 
running a modern pc tower with some hard drives in it, whereas most 
laptops use around 22Watts (one laptop used 60 Watts which was a bit 
much but that was a desktop replacement).

So what I am currently doing it running a Laptop with server os and then 
adding external usb hard drives, 500GB/1TB each, which add 12Watts per 
device. This is the most energy efficient setup can I can currently come 
up with for the flexibility and low power consumption since I like to 
have at least 1 machine on 24/7 for services that I use from work and home.

-h

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