GnuBee Personal Cloud 1 – A NAS specifically engineered to run FLOSS

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 4:05 PM UTC

dom0 wrote: post #15

Ao7bei3s wrote: post #14

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Who said anything about magic - a) they don't use x86, b) they use boards with few unnecessary peripherals, and c) their vendors are perfectly fine with proprietary drivers (-> can't easily reuse their HW). Good luck doing a build with an overall 10W consumption target with x86 and what is essentially desktop HW, especially if it should be affordable (relative to a ~250€ commercial solution) and maintainable (no, no…

I ran an E-350 (20 W TDP) based board for many years and without the idling drives (each about 0.5 W; only system SSD connected) it consumed about 7 W idle. That's well within your 10 W figure - and boards with lower TDPs are available as well (though a lower TDP does not generally imply lower idle power). The replacement system (Sandy Bridge i3) pulls about 25 W in the same scenario, which is fine by me. --- Now you…

Post by floatboth » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 4:07 PM UTC

snvzz wrote: post #19

Though it doesn't run FreeNAS? Or at least something with ZFS.

Post by jacobush » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 4:47 PM UTC

simplehuman wrote: post #17

Great idea. One of the points made in the post is "What kind of security is protecting your data? How can you audit that security?" Yet, many people would say that they rather trust their data with Google/Facebook than self-host or use some random provider or host it at home. Is this a common shared sentiment? Just wondering if this opinion is shared among a more technical HN crowd (most of them use gmail even on HN)…

Post by spitfire » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 5:30 PM UTC

slau wrote: post #8

I'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…

Post by jlgaddis » Sat, Apr 15, 2017, 11:19 PM UTC

mschuster91 wrote: post #11

The big question: what's the actual throughput? 2x1 GBit/s should be 250MB/s (or, after SMB overhead, 200 MB/s) - but even on a beefy QNAP TS-1635 I could get out only 80MB/s despite having a RAID5 of 10x WD RED disks. This tiny thing will not go very far in terms of bandwidth. If you want bandwidth you will need a HW RAID controller.