[Nottingham] GnuBee - F/OSS Personal Cloud

[Martin]

On 05/05/17 09:48, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:
> Well...NAS.
> 
> https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1
> 
> Curious case, can't see it working too well with Husky hair.
> 
> Even more curious choice of processor given some of the stories about
> Mediatek.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/02/chip_chomped_as_devs_debug_backdoor_found_in_android_phones/
> 
> I'm not sure if this CPU carries the same flaw, right enough.

Thanks for that and interesting...

Is/was not that flaw due to the *software* and phone manufacturer
'sloppiness'?

And would not the full-Libre FLOSS as intended by this design by design
*not include* that in the first place?!...



To my personal tastes and wishes, my notes/comments are:

Small whirring cooling fan on the CPU. My experience with those are that
the smaller the fan, the sooner the fan fails. I'd replace that with a
dedicated heatsink;

All open design - OK and good but is that really going to pass EU no-RFI
(EM compatibility) requirements?... Usually, a Faraday cage is ALWAYS a
good idea. Wrap some fine wire mesh around it all to shield the RFI and
still give good aesthetics and cooling?...

Only accepts 2.5" drives :-( I'd insist on 3.5" for bigger drives with
bigger storage... However, the (sexy) "Cloud" storage description
suggests something a little less than multiple TBytes, so only-2.5" can
be a good fit... :-P

Runs from an SD card (easy download iso-and-go?);

Low cost;

And it will be the FLOSS software that really makes it.



For low cost and flexibility and freedom, apart from the RFI and
vulnerable fan, looks very good.

Myself? I'd bolt a RasPi3 onto a multi-3.5" drives enclosure! :-P


Very good to see interest in such openly-freedom devices.

FLOSS goes hard! :-)

Cheers,
Martin



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