[Wylug-discuss] Linux NAS advice.

[borph at gmx.de]

At the end I bought a Synology NAS (the DS112), which runs silently in my
living room since months.

>From my list it has basically everything except Wifi and Bitcoin (its just
too tiny with 256MB RAM). I can definitely recommend, case is nice and
software is very user-friendly. Configuration is web based.

But from the simple functionality like SAMBA you can go further with
'packages' like a DLNA server. If you add another source, you have lots of
'community packages' like OwnCloud or Bittorrent Sync. You can go even
further with ipkg, a package manager for debian-like Linux packages, e.g.
rsnapshot. They don't have a problem with root access, so the box is yours.

For simply storing data and simple tasks it's ok, but I'm hitting the
hardware limits when it comes to e.g. creating thumbnails or finding
duplicates, but hey what can you expect from a low-power consumer NAS.

Peter


2013-07-15 13:31 GMT+02:00 Jim Jackson <jj at franjam.org.uk>:

>
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, borph at gmx.de wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > anybody having a NAS with a Linux on it? I'm thinking to replace my
> > old setup: an old laptop with Ubuntu and an USB harddrive of 1TB.
>
> Over the last 12 years or so, I've run several home servers - one of the
> functions of which is NAS - SAMBA and NFS file serving. I've also "rooted"
> a commercial NAS, DLink DNS-320, with the the FunPlugHack and installed
> various services - all those below except Bitcoin, EncFS and DLNA server.
>
> The advantage of doing you own HW and installing a standard distro, is that
> you can install what you want. I initially used Debian and later Ubuntu
> Server LTS. I don't like the way ubuntu is going, so will be reverting to
> Debian at some point.
>
> My current HW setup is a D945GSEJT Intel ATOM motherboard and a couple
> of Laptop Harddrives, set to spindown when inactive. Power consumption is
> low-ish - but not as low as you could get with an ARM based board.
> Previously I've used VIA mini-itx low power mobo's, and a low power
> industrial x86 mobo I picked up.
>
> > There are plenty of NAS around, but I wouldn't like one which does
> > just a Samba share or any fixed features and that's it. I mainly look
> > for a multi-purpose home server which can be always-on. The USB drive
> > didn't spin down, and the Laptop takes also energy compared to an ARM
> > processor. What I would like to have:
> >
> > - Energy efficient
> > - Ext4 or similar, need hard links.
> > - SSH
> > - Samba shares
> > - rsync backups
> > - EncFS encryption
> > - DLNA server to watch movies on TV
> > - Full bitcoin client
> > - WiFi is a plus, don't have to place it next to the router then.
> >
> > So to speak a little PC. Best would be if you could just take any
> > Ubuntu and put it on the NAS. A Raspberry PI would do it, but is
> > 'naked' and still requires an external HD.
>
> A word of warning about RaspberryPi - Ethernet traffic AND external
> USB disk traffic SHARE a link from the USN/Ether chip to the ARM chip, and
> that link is HiSpeed USB 2. So if you are file serving, the data goes up
> this link from the disk to the cpu, then back down the link from cpu to
> ether. This link is a serious performance bottle neck. I'd search for
> RPI USB fileserving benchmarks before committing to using the RPI for
> anything other than trivial fileserving.
>
> >
> > If you have a NAS and are happy with it, let me know!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Peter
> >
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