[Nottingham] Anyone tried/using: "Cloud" NAS boxes...

[Rory Holland]

I'd be tempted to roll my own in this situation, using cheap x86 hardware
rather than custom ARM stuff that's built into these ready-built devices.
It's probably technically possible to install your own stuff on these, but
you'll be very limited by the hardware.

Buy a cheap tiny PC case, a tiny motherboard to put in it, and a couple of
tiny (but spacious) hard drives.

Then you can install your Linux flavour of choice and tuck the box away in
a corner.

Rory Holland <me at rory.sh>
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On 28 July 2014 11:24, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm looking to go personal cloudy and the various NAS boxes look to be
> good hardware for a low power computer + x2 HDDs...
>
> But... Is their installed software any good?
> Can they be subverted with Linux + OwnCloud?
>
> Anyone done that?
>
>
> Indeed, anyone tried one of these:
>
> NetGear ReadyNAS 102 (2 Bay) 1.2GHz 512MB
>
> CPU Marvell® Armada 370 1.2GHz
> Memory 512MB
> Hot-swap HDDs
> Gbit lan
> USB & eSATA
>
> (OK, so another one of those tempting 'special offers'... :-) )
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
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