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- Auzy, on 11/02/2008, -7/+30OMG, I cant believe that this has made front page.
Three years ago AT LEAST, we were hacking NSLU2 devices made by linksys at the applecentre I worked at, and linked them with Roku soundbridges so that people could play their music without requiring a computer to be turned on. This article is so clueless, I don't think the author realises many routers (ones older then 2 years) has all the functionality he speaks about already (yes, even bittorrent). Maybe the author needs to look at the Asus routers.
What will make front page next? Maybe an article about why people should be using switches instead of Hubs maybe? Or the advantages of TCP/IP instead of IPX/SPX?.
And we used to sell security cameras too. There is NO way we would set them up using a NAS device, especially as many cameras can save to an FTP server. Especially since there was no way of knowing they were still online and recording easily.
This article is REALLY outdated. You don't need to hack NSLU2 adapters to do this stuff anymore, you can get routers that have these features built in (which is what I'd recommend, as the NAS adapters often had problems and required redbooting). And this guy doesn't mention how if you don't do it properly, your onboard flash chip (with a limited number of write cycles), will likely die quite quickly.
This article was written by someone who I think has read the theory, but has no real idea what his talking about.. Dugg down. - inactive, on 11/02/2008, -2/+231. there was nothing in that article about hacking
2. I don't even know where to begin ridiculing the stuff that actually was in the article - iliketurtles2, on 11/20/2008, -1/+12"A PC is not designed for working 7*24 hour"... hmmmm..
- scarwars, on 11/02/2008, -0/+10I keep mine on for weeks on end without a reboot.. nothing wrong with that.
- divinediva, on 11/01/2008, -2/+12I agree with your point of view, HD size increase is amazingly fast, at such a point that your external storage device can not back up the newest HD. This is especially true for USB, eSata, Firewire external HD.
- rsh28630, on 11/02/2008, -1/+7While you may be astute, your inability to construct a coherent sentence is appalling. The sole communication you've achieved is arrogance.
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/02/2008, -0/+3***** THING SUCKS!
- Auzy, on 11/02/2008, -0/+3i'm a pilot now..
- k8tek, on 11/02/2008, -1/+4That article sucked!
- WestN, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2No, it's designed for working 25/7 :)
- MixMastaKooz, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2My ReadyNAS Duo does all these things out of the box. The drives are hot swappable and it was very easy to set up. His only decent point was that consumer NAS's use less power (20W) than a full computer.
I do get the sneaking suspicion that this was a foreign language article that this guy just translated and wants to pass it off as his own. - Colindean, on 11/02/2008, -0/+21.) Go buy a QNAP NAS.
2.) If you don't like the OS on it, put Debian on it
3.) ???
4.) Profit?!
Seriously, best NASes out there. - frogman54, on 11/02/2008, -1/+3Nerdy pilot.
- scarwars, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Flight simulator
- MrDo, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Hacking is all good fun if you have the time, but many NAS solutions already has these features.
Qnap for example has a lot of these features out of the box. http://www.qnap.com/pro_detail_software.asp?p_id=8 ...
And if that is not enough, there is more from the qpkg or ipkg packages. http://www.qnap.com/QPKG.asp
Look at their forums for help and more information. http://forum.qnap.com/
I am sure there are other vendors that does something similar as well. - Auzy, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Oh actually, looks like i read the article wrong. He starts talking about using a PC as the hardware platform (which makes this article even more obvious and less digg worthy). I think I overestimated the people who dugg this crap up. His just setting up a pc with linux, which everyone has done before.
- inactive, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1magnus@diodon:~$ uptime
09:14:35 up 78 days, 18:10, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.07, 0.03
magnus@diodon:~$
Hmmmm.... (there are many out there with uptimes to beat this... I'm not even trying here).
That's my PC based file server (or, in modern parlance, NAS). - diggboy101, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1but how do you hack a Jay-Z?
- Y0tsuya, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1Well I wouldn't really worry about the flash chip dying. They tend to be good for at least 10K write cycles. But the stuff discussed in the article is not for the average linux hobbyist who can't solder and can't tell one end of a scope probe from the other. Design engineers like me work with prototype boards which relatively easy to develop on. When we get to the production stage we cut out all unnecessary components in order to save cost and shrink board space. As a result these devices look nothing like prototypes and are 10x harder to work with due to lack of debugging resources. In the old days we could solder a wire onto some CPU with a QFP package to make do, but these days everything's in BGA package so that's no longer possible.
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 11/02/2008, -0/+1English is obvious not the writer's first language.
- paulclough, on 02/11/2009, -0/+1http://www.borlingforcongress.com
would recommend FreeNAS to anybody wanting to set up a dedicated home file server, after spending hours trying to get various Linux distros to share files with my Macs, it was refreshing to have AFP supported as standard. - romantanner424, on 02/21/2009, -0/+0its real amazing how fast the storage technology has escelated. Remember my first pc didnt even have a hd.
http://www.iwantacaiberries.com - irha, on 11/03/2008, -0/+0Some hardware recommendations to build a silent and small form factor (including enclosure and motherboard) NAS would have been nice.
- shiftylonghorn, on 11/02/2008, -1/+1Hacking a NAS.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2995461171_88e ... - gingerman, on 11/02/2008, -1/+0English is obviously not the writer's first language.
Where come from you the do? - frogman54, on 11/02/2008, -5/+2Nerd.
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