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Personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

What I was looking for: a reasonably priced network attached RAID 5 solution in the 600 GB region for savely storing my digital photos on.

What I found instead: the Linksys NSLU2, a tiny embedded Linux device that connects up to two USB 2.0 disk drives or flash disks to a network. Does it solve my 600 GB problem? No. But my noise problem. Once updated with an Open Source replacement firmware, it seems to be an almost standard 250 MHz Linux computer - noise free, for as little as 80 €. I think that fitted with a low-noise hard disk in a fanless USB 2.0 case, it can replace an loud and aging machine that I use as a mini fileserver, a PHP development server and a Mediawiki staging server, finally making my working environment noise free. Within a few days I will know if this plan works out. At least, it seems to be a great toy.

RELATED DEL.ICIO.US TAGS
del.icio.us/haikohebig/nslu2 - NSLU2 links
del.icio.us/haikohebig/raid - (NAS) RAID 5 solutions
del.icio.us/haikohebig/nas - Non-RAID NAS solutions