Reply to: NAS Advice

[Ardesco]

I get it now. Maybe you should consider living somewhere like Mumbai whre you can be a developer and develop straight from the spec without thinking.

You saw you are trying to see a builders work through a devs eyes, doesn't work like that. Fred the builder will quite happily build whatever you want if you tell him to, he'll then come back and take more money in about a year and rebuild it once it's fallen down


Then again that's much how wipro work isn't it.... Write any old crap and then get more money to write it again in a years time......

[oracleslave]

Hey it's not up to the builder to think, that's up to the architect or the site manager. They say build a wall here and the builder just does it!!!

I get it now. Maybe you should consider living somewhere like Mumbai whre you can be a developer and develop straight from the spec without thinking.

[Ardesco]

That's your plan B sorted then!

Plan E

B and C are already running and Plan D is a Plumber/CORGI registered Gas man

[Ardesco]

You a fan of 'Grand Designs' then?

Hey it's not up to the builder to think, that's up to the architect or the site manager. They say build a wall here and the builder just does it!!!

[KathyWoolfe]

I often think life would be easier as a builder, get out in the fresh air and do something active, very little thinking and then I could build my own extension. Maybe one day hey

That's your plan B sorted then!

[oracleslave]

I often think life would be easier as a builder, get out in the fresh air and do something active, very little thinking and then I could build my own extension. Maybe one day hey

You a fan of 'Grand Designs' then?

[lilelvis2000]

I got an old PC from a skip, put on freeNAS, got a RAID card off fleabay for £100, and two 500Gb drives from different manufacturers (about £60 each), giving me 500Gb dual redundant - and mapped differnt drives for different people - my wife has some, my son has some, and I have some.

Cheers Farmer, you country folk always have the answers! I have a second hand PC which I was considering putting on Windows XP Pro. But we've decided to go with Linux....I shall check out freeNAS.
I got my machine from a local charity (hyndburn used furniture) - Blatant AD

[Ardesco]

builder

HTH

I often think life would be easier as a builder, get out in the fresh air and do something active, very little thinking and then I could build my own extension. Maybe one day hey

[FarmerPalmer]

I got an old PC from a skip, put on freeNAS, got a RAID card off fleabay for £100, and two 500Gb drives from different manufacturers (about £60 each), giving me 500Gb dual redundant - and mapped differnt drives for different people - my wife has some, my son has some, and I have some.

[NickFitz]

Took a while to cut all the holes in the walls and route the cable but time well spent IMHO (although my wife was not impressed at the time)

Yes I know, i'm a geek

builder

HTH

[b0redom]

Just map a drive, something like Z or T to the network shares. Then tell her that all her docs are on that drive. If you mount it on all the machines she uses, then you're set - that's what I've done for my Mrs and it works a treat.

[Ardesco]

I've got the 1TB version of this: -

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview...avigationKey=0

I use it for file storage and music streaming to the Sonos.

Ardesco - is your Terastation Pro silent? Mine has an resonating fan noise every three seconds or so. You couldn't have it in your sitting room for instance.

No idea mine is locked away in the garage. I cut holes in all the walls, put a patch panel in the garage and had BT install the telephone socket in the garage. I have a small comms box on the wall in the garage with the patch panel in it, a switch, the wireless router from BT and my main telephone socket with converters from RJ11 to RJ45. Every room in the house has at least 2 network ports with 4 in the sitting room and 10 in the office. The garage also has reinforced door frames and six barrel security locks so even if you do get into the house it would take a couple of hours to break into the garage, there are a couple of internal doors that close behind the garage door meaning it can't be opened from the outside (unless the internal doors are left open that is) The garage acts as a mini server room, nice and cool all the time and I don't hear any noise from the kit in there

Took a while to cut all the holes in the walls and route the cable but time well spent IMHO (although my wife was not impressed at the time)

Yes I know, i'm a geek

[NickFitz]

Will she have any less difficulty finding her files on that tho????

It's a trivial matter to replicate all her data to the NAS, then conceal the hard drive on her machine from her account - I assume she wouldn't know (or care) that the disk containing her "My Documents" folder wasn't actually the one in the box next to her.

[Chugnut]

I've got the 1TB version of this: -

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview...avigationKey=0

I use it for file storage and music streaming to the Sonos.

Ardesco - is your Terastation Pro silent? Mine has an resonating fan noise every three seconds or so. You couldn't have it in your sitting room for instance.

[Ardesco]

I use one of these:

http://www.dabs4work.com/productview...avigationKey=0

Does the job for me. I believe that you can hack the firmware as well to install other services onto it such as a torrent program to download OSS such as Linux, Open Office, Etc.