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From: Abhey Shah <as234@york.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [9fans] robust heterogenous home file server?
Date: Thu,  9 Aug 2007 15:26:13 +0100
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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  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.
>
>