Comments on: Terabyte NAS http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/terabyte-nas/ escape colon w q Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:03:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: monnrj http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/terabyte-nas/#comment-51 monnrj Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:36:53 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/terabyte-nas/#comment-51 BTW: my personal data system works like this: old 400mhz g4 mac in kitchen (that is my radio/stereo, bittorrent, big download, ssh gateway and fileserver) has 2x250GB disks in in it. These are rsynced to my dreamhost account nightly. Dreamhost == $24/mo for 585GB of disk that can be webdav OR ftp/sftp/http, but not both. I use MacFUSE+sshfs to mount my backup directory on dreamhost as a local filesystem, which seems to work better. In the future I will work it out so that the rsync will run at 1am and stop itself at 7am... right now it runs and runs if there is a big delta in the dataset. But I want one of those NASes. You can apparently hook a certain model of USB 802.11 widget to it and make a subset of the data (or all of it) available via wireless as well. What I really want is the new 802.11n Apple Airport (which has nice sounding NAS funcitonality) to work really really well, but the jury is still out at this point. BTW: my personal data system works like this:

old 400mhz g4 mac in kitchen (that is my radio/stereo, bittorrent, big download, ssh gateway and fileserver) has 2×250GB disks in in it. These are rsynced to my dreamhost account nightly. Dreamhost == $24/mo for 585GB of disk that can be webdav OR ftp/sftp/http, but not both. I use MacFUSE+sshfs to mount my backup directory on dreamhost as a local filesystem, which seems to work better.

In the future I will work it out so that the rsync will run at 1am and stop itself at 7am… right now it runs and runs if there is a big delta in the dataset.

But I want one of those NASes. You can apparently hook a certain model of USB 802.11 widget to it and make a subset of the data (or all of it) available via wireless as well. What I really want is the new 802.11n Apple Airport (which has nice sounding NAS funcitonality) to work really really well, but the jury is still out at this point.

]]> By: monnrj http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/terabyte-nas/#comment-50 monnrj Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:31:54 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/terabyte-nas/#comment-50 Rick has one of these. He bought it without disks for $580 and then added 4x 500gb SATA disks to it @ $111 each, if I recall correctly. The nice thing about this is that you could start with two disks, mirrored and the darn thing will relayout all by itself when you add the third and fourth disks. Neat. Rick has one of these. He bought it without disks for $580 and then added 4x 500gb SATA disks to it @ $111 each, if I recall correctly. The nice thing about this is that you could start with two disks, mirrored and the darn thing will relayout all by itself when you add the third and fourth disks. Neat.

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