It's about time the Linksys Slug was updated. There's a gap in the market for a SoHo box. Room for two 3.5" drives, built in 10/100/1000 hub, couple of USB ports and running Linux. For, what shall we say, 100 quid with no drives?
@jbond: Yes that would be great. I don't think that the Slug will do hardware RAID.
@conor: do you want hardware RAID or software RAID? Software is pretty useless if the machine/OS that is running it dies. All the RAID configuration is gone.
Better to run some mirroring software to two seperate drives (an rsync script or something).
Julian, you've just described exactly what I want.
Bernard, I am badly soured on software RAID after it failed miserably to protect me on a Fedora Core 5 setup. One disk got corrupted and use of LVM meant no way to recover off the second disk. HW RAID using motherboard controllers sounds very flakey too from what I've read. Proper HW RAID is the way to go I think.
@conor: thats what harddisk controller boards in a machine gives - proper hardware RAID (depending on what RAID level you want 0, 1, 5 etc). @julian: is the slug device not just a linux distro running rsync? There is also another linuix "NAS" distro...
The Slug is just a tiny box running Linux with 2 USB and one 10/100 port. Supports NSF and Samba. Cheap, cheerful and no RAID. But interesting enough that the linux has been hacked to do all sorts of cool linux stuff.
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@conor: you could ask TomRaf. I saw his Buffalo NAS box (no idea of model). Nice looking device. Quiet. Does RAID also I think.
You could just take two USB disks and some software to mirror the files.
Depends on if you want to spend money. To get a "small enterprise" grade NAS, around 1000euro.
2 years ago by runningwithbulls
It's about time the Linksys Slug was updated. There's a gap in the market for a SoHo box. Room for two 3.5" drives, built in 10/100/1000 hub, couple of USB ports and running Linux. For, what shall we say, 100 quid with no drives?
2 years ago by jbond
@jbond: Yes that would be great. I don't think that the Slug will do hardware RAID.
@conor: do you want hardware RAID or software RAID? Software is pretty useless if the machine/OS that is running it dies. All the RAID configuration is gone.
Better to run some mirroring software to two seperate drives (an rsync script or something).
2 years ago by runningwithbulls
Julian, you've just described exactly what I want.
Bernard, I am badly soured on software RAID after it failed miserably to protect me on a Fedora Core 5 setup. One disk got corrupted and use of LVM meant no way to recover off the second disk. HW RAID using motherboard controllers sounds very flakey too from what I've read. Proper HW RAID is the way to go I think.
2 years ago by conoro
@conor: thats what harddisk controller boards in a machine gives - proper hardware RAID (depending on what RAID level you want 0, 1, 5 etc). @julian: is the slug device not just a linux distro running rsync? There is also another linuix "NAS" distro...
2 years ago by runningwithbulls
Built on debian i think....web interface to manage and thats it.
2 years ago by runningwithbulls
The Slug is just a tiny box running Linux with 2 USB and one 10/100 port. Supports NSF and Samba. Cheap, cheerful and no RAID. But interesting enough that the linux has been hacked to do all sorts of cool linux stuff.
2 years ago by jbond