I am looking for something that I can hack away like a NSLU2 but that thing only has one disc and worst of all its 100m interface. Anyone know of a device you can load Linux on that has maybe 2 discs like a NAS200 with a gig nic? I need a quiet device to act as a tftp-dhcp/web/dns system.
I thought of just building one from a new Soekris board, or even a mini itx but hope there was something simpler/cheaper.
Thanks for any reco's!
jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I am looking for something that I can hack away like a NSLU2 but that thing only has one disc and worst of all its 100m interface. Anyone know of a device you can load Linux on that has maybe 2 discs like a NAS200 with a gig nic? I need a quiet device to act as a tftp-dhcp/web/dns system.
The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box.
I thought of just building one from a new Soekris board, or even a mini itx but hope there was something simpler/cheaper.
Or even micro-ATX. I saw recently that AMD came out with a clocked-down Athlon. The total package wattage was projected to be lower than Intel's Atom. If I can find that link . . . . .
. . . here it is:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997.html
Toby Bluhm ha scritto:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I am looking for something that I can hack away like a NSLU2 but that thing only has one disc and worst of all its 100m interface. Anyone know of a device you can load Linux on that has maybe 2 discs like a NAS200 with a gig nic? I need a quiet device to act as a tftp-dhcp/web/dns system.
The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of
The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box.
The Dlink can be easly upgraded; I can't find an english page now, but I guess you'll find all the info that you need googling a bit. It has gig nic, 2 disk and a bittorrent client. If you want you can add other clients (like mldonkey) on a kind of chrooted environment and with a bit of hacking you can also install a full Debian inside (but this involves soldering a serial interface, for what I can understand), is quiet and is quite flexible on the configuration even on the standard configuration. I just saw one yesterday, and looked interesting; the owner is fully satisfied.
-- Regards Lorenzo Quatrini
The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of
What a procedure to hack that thing!
The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box.
That's why I want to put straight Linux on it:)
As fun as hacking that thing would be, I might just buy one of the tiny boards, but for the price if I brick the DNS-323 it would still be fun and I wouldn't really care!
What's involved in building an embedded version of CentOS for a Soekris or similar small mobo? Is that a feat worth considering or is the work involved huge?
Thanks a lot guys! jlc
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
What's involved in building an embedded version of CentOS for a Soekris or similar small mobo? Is that a feat worth considering or is the work involved huge?
Centos 5 supports 686 or better. I *think* the geode is a 586 type cpu.
Something like Puppy or DSL would probably be better. The hw vendor may say what it can run - hopefully something less generic than just "Linux."
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of
What a procedure to hack that thing!
The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box.
That's why I want to put straight Linux on it:)
As fun as hacking that thing would be, I might just buy one of the tiny boards, but for the price if I brick the DNS-323 it would still be fun and I wouldn't really care!
The most demanding operation you'd want such a server to do is probably feeding video/media files to a DLNA client like an xbox360 or PS3 which sometimes involves transcoding the content. You'd probably get the most specific advice about device capabilities on the forums for those programs (mediatomb, for example, which runs on a lot of the small network hard drives).
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of
What a procedure to hack that thing!
The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the
road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box.
That's why I want to put straight Linux on it:)
As fun as hacking that thing would be, I might just buy one of the tiny boards, but for the price if I brick the DNS-323 it would still be fun and I wouldn't really care!
The most demanding operation you'd want such a server to do is probably feeding video/media files to a DLNA client like an xbox360 or PS3 which sometimes involves transcoding the content. You'd probably get the most specific advice about device capabilities on the forums for those programs (mediatomb, for example, which runs on a lot of the small network hard drives).
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Rob Townley wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
Joseph L. Casale wrote: The Dlink DNS-323 looks exactly what you are asking of What a procedure to hack that thing! The problem I see with going the all-in-one NAS route is that down the road, there's always some function you'd like to add - but you can't. You've hit the limitations of the box. That's why I want to put straight Linux on it:) As fun as hacking that thing would be, I might just buy one of the tiny boards, but for the price if I brick the DNS-323 it would still be fun and I wouldn't really care!http://www.readynas.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/readynas_specs.swf
I had the ReadyNAS NV+ and finally sold it because i found it too slow and too choppy. To reach its full potential, which on paper is supposed to be able to transfer around 30 MBps (i never go that), you have to use jumbo frames and gigabit ethernet.
The problem is that the CPU is very slow. The ReadyNAS was supposed to offer shell access but it never happened during the time i had it. The ReadyNAS was one of the fastest on the market if not the fastest. Then Infrant was bought by Netgear.
Sure it had many cool features like their X-Raid technology. The casing was slick and solid. I used it for storing my music (i do disk jockey) and the ReadyNAS was choppy. It seems to be weak at multitasking requests (playing a song while searching for another). Playing Music was glitching while i was doing a "filesystem search", not cool for a DJ!
I replaced the thing by an Asus micro-ATX mainboard and an Athlon Dual Core 4600+ i had here (there's so cheap now!). I took the 4 hard drives i had on the ReadyNAS (Western-Digital 500 Gigs RAID Edition) and i do software Raid 5 with CentOS 5: the result is very good (transfer around 35-40 MB/s and the cpu usage is low). I experienced the Samba problem that made "disconfort" to Winblows XP but it's fixed now with the update of Samba.
If you're not into performance, one of these boxes could do it but don't expect something zippy. Don't expect high transfer rate.
Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.
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