GnuBee Personal Cloud 1 – A NAS specifically engineered to run FLOSS
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#2I would be 100% in on this if I could slot my existing 3.5" drives in.
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#3This doesn't seem powerful enough for media centers that transcode-as-you-watch like plex/kodi, but would work fantastically well with the ahead-of-time-transcoding media server I created: splinter.com.au/gondola ha - shameless plug
Edit: No, it wouldn't run Gondola - not enough RAM, unfortunately.
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#4I would be 100% in on this if I could slot my existing 3.5" drives in.
Agreed. Only accomodating 2.5" drives makes this significantly less useful as a NAS. I get that their target comparison is the ds416slim, but imo the current sweet target would have been the ds416play or even the ds916+. :\
They say that they plan to do a 3.5" version nebulously in the future, but, my god, that's such a backwards decision. There is much more market for the larger model.
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#5In the same vein, any one know of a cheap (around 30-50$) dual NIC SOC?
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#6Interesting project for low cost NAS. However, why is it open to air? It seems to me that it would gather quite a bit of dust and be susceptible to damage. Is this required for fanless operation?
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#7Nice. I've been looking for a low-power "bring-your-own Linux" board for a while. Classic DIY NAS builds consume outrageous amounts of power (35W to >100W) compared to commercial NAS (~10W), and existing single board computers lack GigE and/or >=2 SATA ports.
I just wish they'd have gone for a standard uATX form factor for compatibility with a professional case (and 3.5" disks). It's ironical that the "open hardware" project has to come up with a proprietary form factor :/
I also wish they had ECC RAM and enough of it for ZFS, but I know that is technically impossible with the price and power constraints.
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#8I'm in the market for a new NAS, but I don't think this would have enough oomph to be very useful.
I understand that it's by design, and that I'm probably not the target demographic, as others have pointed out, the 512MB of RAM, lackluster CPU and 2.5" drives are all pretty disappointing.
This is estimated to cost $168. For $250, you can get an HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry, which comes with 4GB of ECC RAM, a 2.3Ghz dual core x86-64 CPU, dual gigabit that supports line-speed link aggregation, and takes 4 3.5" HDDs. It's upgradable to an i3 or Xeon CPU, 16GB of RAM, and can be modded to take another 2 or 3 2.5" drives.
I appreciate that it's fully open, which is definitely a massive appeal, but if I need to run another machine (with blobs) next to it to actually operate on the data, what's the point?
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#9In the same vein, any one know of a cheap (around 30-50$) dual NIC SOC?
I think the TI chip used in the beaglebone has support for multiple /ports/ via an RGMII switch or so.
It's been a while since I messed with that though.
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#10I like the idea of an open source NAS but I don't think this is the way to go. I would like to see a low power linux boards with two sata connections. This way you can have dual disks in a mirror situation. With multiple disks, you could easily add a new linux board as well. Something like the BananaPi comes close, although I doubt their QA deppartment.