[TriLUG] Choosing a new home computer

Tim Jowers timjowers at gmail.com
Mon Jan 6 14:22:10 EST 2014


Very neat Ken. I, for one, would love to see your writeup.
Tim
On Jan 6, 2014 11:19 AM, "Ken Mink" <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 01/06/2014 12:53 PM, Chris Merrill wrote:
>
>> On 1/6/2014 11:23 AM, Zac Durham wrote:
>>
>>> I have been looking at similar devices the past couple weeks. While I'm
>>> excited to discover the cubox I'm equally concerned there are others,
>>> yet,
>>> that I might be overlooking. Dewey, were there others you were looking at
>>> before settling on the cubox? What were the deciding factors?
>>>
>> I'm also curious to hear about other options. The cubox looks like it'll
>> fit the bill for what I need - which is a light-duty mail / web / media
>> server.
>>
>> But I'll also need a NAS-like device for storing media and as a backup
>> target for our other PCs. Preferably with RAID and power-optimizing
>> idle-drive-shutdown features.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I intend to put together a more comprehensive writeup, but I recently set
> up a small home storage network for my wife. She's a professional
> photographer and chews through storage pretty quickly.
>
> I bought a bunch of Pogoplug V4 devices. They have GigE, 2 x USB3.0 and a
> single SATA3 dock and have minimal power requirements. I reloaded them with
> ArchLinux (http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4) and
> put a 1TB drive in the SATA dock. I then set them up as iSCSI targets. My
> main file server is acting as the initiator. It takes the resulting devices
> and creates a RAID5 array which has a filesytem and is exported to my
> wife's desktop.
>
> The pogos are $20 each and the hd's I picked up $60 each. The RAID is
> handled by mdadm. I can add new devices as needed and expand the array. If
> one goes down, RAID5 keeps the filesystem alive. So far, it's been stable.
> The throughput is adequate. I have not benchmarked it. My wife uses it as
> archive storage, so it doesn't need to be fast. I do have them on a
> separate vlan from the result of the house.
>
> Any ways, it was a cool little project and solved a problem I had nicely.
>
> Ken
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