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On 2015-03-02, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <clhdcoFl983U8@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-03-01, Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is anyone using an NAS thingie? I've been looking at the Lenovo ix2 line 
>> > -- they seem pretty cheap. Can you boot from one of these?
>> 
>> Yeah, I use a Drobo -  way better than most simple NAS solutions.
>
> Thanks. Then I said "Hmm." I can buy a used Mac Pro 1,1 or 2,1 for a few 
> hundred bucks and populate 3 of the bays with 2 terabyte drives and boot 
> with an SSD from the other bay and use the machine for an NAS, with 
> Samba and Avahi. I can run an Apache server on it; I can run Squid and 
> some sort of SQL. It's got 2 wired NICs and Airport: I can turn it into 
> a router connected to my VPN (and so on).
>
> I can hack Yosemite into it, and if I'm running it essentially headless, 
> it doesn't matter about the graphics display.  Aside from the obvious 
> considerations of power consumption and size (it's not a noisy machine 
> by any means), are there any drawbacks to such a scheme?

A Mac mini would be cheaper to purchase, and way cheaper to run due to
much lower energy requirements and less heat output. I have a Drobo S
with 17 TB of hard drives installed connected to a dual 2.5 Ghz Core i5
Mac mini (Late 2012) server that sits in my office closet without a
monitor - I can connect to it with screen sharing, but rarely have the
need. That Mac mini runs Yosemite with Mac OS X Server installed ($19
from the App Store), which provides most of the following services,
though some I provide myself: file sharing, DNS, VPN, Apache, MySQL,
Mail, Time Machine network backups for all Macs in the house, a caching
server, Xcode git repositories, iTunes Home Sharing serving digital
movies and television shows for all devices in the house (computers,
iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs connected to wide screen televisions, etc), my
own custom home surveillance system, and just about anything else I
need. I used to compile and configure all of the above by hand from open
source packages and so on; but OS X Server is stable and robust enough
now that I no longer need to do that, which saves me tons of time and
sweat. The Mac mini is connected to an Airport Extreme dual band router
and a Motorola SURFboard SB6121 cable modem (also in the closet) as well
as an APC Back-UPS Pro BR1500 uninterruptible power supply that ensures
a little over an hour of run time for all of the above so that I never
lose my network connection during power outages. It's stable and just
works the majority of the time. It's a pretty sweet setup in a small
package. I love it. 
 
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JR

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NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 15:48 -0500
  Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-01 21:07 +0000
    Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 01:13 -0500
      Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-02 16:12 +0000
        Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 12:47 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-02 18:06 +0000
            Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 13:47 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-02 14:03 -0500
        Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 06:34 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 12:54 +0000
            Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 07:59 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 13:22 +0000
                Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 08:33 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 14:38 +0000
            Re: NAS suggestions Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-05 19:00 +0000
        Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 07:57 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-05 09:01 -0500
            Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 11:58 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-05 12:18 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 17:48 +0000
          Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 14:06 +0000
            Re: NAS suggestions Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-03-05 11:55 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-05 17:46 +0000
      Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-02 11:35 -0500
        Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 12:50 -0500
        Re: NAS suggestions JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-02 14:11 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-02 19:13 +0000
            Re: NAS suggestions JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-02 14:49 -0500
              Re: NAS suggestions Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-03 09:31 +1300
                Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 15:58 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-02 17:32 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 07:18 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-03 12:23 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-03 14:30 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-04 09:07 +1300
                Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-03 15:05 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-02 18:05 -0500
                Re: NAS suggestions Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-03 13:07 +1300
              Re: NAS suggestions Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-03 00:55 +0000
          Re: NAS suggestions nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-02 14:14 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-02 14:43 -0500
          Re: NAS suggestions Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-03 08:56 +1300
          Re: NAS suggestions Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-02 15:56 -0500

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