On 25 Nov 10:47, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 14/11/15 19:16, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote: This may or may not be what you have in mind, but when replacing our house server, which doesn't do anything other than DHCP, DNS caching and serving files via SAMBA, I did the following:
Raspberry Pi2 with an 8Gb card running Ubuntu and dnsmasq QNAP TS212P with 2x 1Tb WD Blue disks as a fle server.
Er, that's it!
It uses a fraction of the power the old stuff did, and so far seems to work very well. The Pi is hardly ticking over, and the QNAP, which has a learning curve attached, seems to work well as well. One thing is that it trashes the disks you put in, so migration requires some kind of holding station. I took the opportunity to go for low power new drives at about £40 each.
I would have gone that route... except I quite like gigabit networking to my media server... oh, that and I don't think I'd have been able to attach the disks to a pi2 in any sane way (the media server currently has a 2x6TB WD Red RAID1, a 2x4TB WD Red RAID1 and a 2x3TB WD Red RAID1). So I went the HP Microserver route, and that also has an external bluray writer attached (usually only used for it's reading capability, using makemkv to add more content to the media server!). It's also the firewall/router for my second and third seperate networks... the main network is the openwrt router running quagga that does external connectivity and talks bgp to the microserver so that routes on the back of the microserver just happen and I don't have to think very hard :)
Cheers,