Re: [9fans] robust heterogenous home file server?
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Re: [9fans] robust heterogenous home file server?         

Group: comp.os.plan9 · Group Profile
Author: Abhey Shah
Date: Aug 9, 2007 07:27

drobo
Looks really easy to use and very robust to hard drive failure but
the bad things about it are: It doesn't work with linux, is
overpriced and only uses USB.

On 9 Aug 2007, at 14:58, Axel Belinfante wrote:
> I'm finally producing data at home that I care about (DSLR,
> shooting RAW)
> so I'm wondering how to construct a robust file server that allows
> heterogenous access (windows, mac, linux, plan9), is affordable,
> low-power, ideally low noise, low-maintenance (I like kenf) and
> preferably
> can be built with little effort using of-the-shelf items.
> robustness being the main criterion.
>
> I've been looking at coraids products but they seem a bit high-
> endish...
> something like that but then 'smaller' might be nice.
> I'm unsure about plugging usb-drives into wireless access points
> (what is apple's bonjour? open in any way?)
>
>
> any thoughts, experiences? (does, don'ts?)
>
> Axel.
>
>
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