Recent content by Twice_Shy

Thanks! Does anyone out there have a mirror of the old pluto ISO's by chance? I'm just curious even if it's "obsolete". Did linuxMCE just continue unbranched as the main and only automation system, or has it split into multiple projects? Have totally separate projects sprouted up with very...

thank you! :) i'll take a risk, though i wont be shucking it for awhile. is there another way to test a drive you already have to verify what you got without opening it?

I was just curious if anyone here remembered when the Pluto home automation software came out. I'm told this turned into LinuxMCE(?) but couldn't verify. The original website seems gone as are the ISO images. I'm wondering if any other projects might've integrated it's code or if there are...

I cannot find definitive information and don't know whether this detail even changes. (like where it wasn't when it first came out but might be now) Does anyone know or can anyone direct me to to where to find constantly updated data about which drives are PMR vs SMR?

Thank you to everyone for being direct and to the point, the answers I got from ubiquiti were pretty vague... What would people suggest the clear upgrade path is then? If I leave out VPN (or have that client side for now, so the top tier router on the internet only has to sort QoS for VOIP and...

I've seen benchmarks but I don't recall seeing any with quality of service turned on. I'm even further curious whether other features can slow it down further - ie whats an absolute worst case that this router is capable of handling? What slows it down the most? I'm looking for something that...

Expanding slightly on the previous... part of what i'm learning is whether I should ever expect to really need a SAN or whether a NAS will be able to do the job just as well. The biggest use is going to be editing and processing terabytes of high resolution video footage, but there will be...

In reverse order, THANKS bernard for your suggestion, I had not considered that at all, and I forgot sometimes that tech colleges CAN be looking for "worthwhile projects" like that to pursue since they need something to learn about and try to solve anyways. I will definately be following up...

Just to followup (been swamped-busy with stuff so forgot i'd posted things) one of my problems is that the fastest internet i'll have for now is 25meg down and 3meg up. So the QoS is essential for VOIP use. So really any router which is well skilled and handling something under those...

The purpose of the NAS/SAN is a progression of priorities. First cheap storage (the first bottleneck is 'having enough'), second performance (the next bottleneck will be time to do things), then reliability (the third bottleneck is not having downtime/deadlines). Trying to store ridiculous...

One month later and no opinions? :P The article that I believe led me here in the firstplace was the budget home FibreChannel SAN/NAS, I was hoping maybe some experts on here would have some insight or that others had replicated or played with such configurations...

That's actually one of the secret strengths of SnapRAID - since it works over the top of the filesystem to achieve RAID like functionality, the files themselves are untouched. There's no data to migrate into or out of some specialized filesystem or even disk format - it's not like setting up...

Any reason it cant be both for now? I assumed as long as the bandwidth of a single shared disk was enough it would be fine. I'm starting out single user, and future multiuser may well be set up to access different volumes at the same time to literally stay on separate drives.

Thats good to know! Though I will probably be hitting multiple millions at some point... many many small WAV files and sound effects in a huge library, many texture files and stock photography images, etc. Doesnt taking snapshots create huge files though like redundant backups almost? Or I...

Thanks for the heads up. Reading up there I guess it doesnt do storage pooling, though that isn't 'life or death' critical just a nice to have. It looks like large files are better - has anyone had experience with many small files? (million plus) Is there some recommended range of # of files...