Miniature file/backup server at home?

[nrael]

pretty nice your raspberry, nice work. And if you buy the v2 it will be running away.

Thanks for the seafile input, I'll check it out, but the website looks bad.

Do you power off your raspberry? or how do you manage, wake on lan doesn't work.

[0E 800]

Nice thread. Great updates. How is the network performance on the RPI2?
 I remember reading that the NIC and UBS share the same bus so networking is limited by that.
For this reason I purchased a ODROIDC1 which was about the same price and seemed to have better specs.

I also have a BeagleBone Black, however its very limited by the 512 memory and single usb.

Was thinking of turning one of those devices into portable handshake capture device.

BTW - think I will see if I can find an old pair of hose, excellent idea.

[Kulverstukas]

Do you power off your raspberry? or how do you manage, wake on lan doesn't work.

What do you mean? RPI it's powered on all the time, I only shut it down at the end of each month to make a clone backup of the SD card - no rsync would not aid me if the card got corrupt due to power loss power surges (that happens sometimes). The RPI drains so little power that I can afford keeping it up all day, if it wasn't up all day, then it's not usable to me.
The external drive however is not powered on all the time, I am using spindown (posted about it) to make the drive sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, so it doesn't spin when nothing is using it. When I need to use it, the RPI wakes it up in a few seconds.

Nice thread. Great updates. How is the network performance on the RPI2?
I remember reading that the NIC and UBS share the same bus so networking is limited by that.

Same with RPI1, USB and ethernet share the same bus, so transfer speed is limited to 6mb through the cable and 2mb using wifi. But that's fine for me - enough for timed recording with a set-top box, DLNA streaming performance is good through cable, can't stream HD content through wifi tho but I don't do that anyway
I haven't considered other alternatives, because they're not available in my country (could order but dem shipping costs), and RPI has a lot of support being a home server, so there.

[Kulverstukas]

Bump. If anyone is interested, I wrote a thorough blog post about my mini-server: http://9v.lt/blog/what-i-use-my-raspberry-for/

[youngbuck]

Glad to see the Raspberry Pi is working out good. I was originally thinking about buying one for a streaming box but I figured I needed more power for other tasks but a NAS was just too powerful/expensive for what I needed. I might still buy a Pi for another project but we will see. I decided to turn to the 25 watt AMD 5350, it only supports single channel memory which is a downside but at 150 for roughly all components so not bad. Of course it is AMD technology rather then the ARM, so more compatibility at this time.. It's rated a 2600 on the benchmark scale which isn't great but not terrible. I am going to update to a 5TB hopefully soon for more storage.

Here's what it looks like...





I will say that is has absolutely terrible cable and can be loud at times, next time I am going for the full jet airplane sounding Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2. It is a good bang for your buck however and has proven reliable..

[Kulverstukas]

Nice box, but do you really need such a powerful NAS? what will you use it for?
In my case, the size and power consumption is what pushed me towards an RPI, also the cost

[youngbuck]

Nice box, but do you really need such a powerful NAS? what will you use it for?
In my case, the size and power consumption is what pushed me towards an RPI, also the cost

You never know what tomorrow brings! I might do something crazy with it. Lol. I plan on getting the Raspberry Pi and making a cheap smart TV but we will see how that goes when the time comes. Not sure how I'm going to figure out the inputs but we will see. I might just make it a dedicated streamer and not worry about the inputs.

[nrael]

how's your transfer rate? did you made any optimization to get more speed?

[Kulverstukas]

how's your transfer rate? did you made any optimization to get more speed?

I'm afraid you can't do much about the ethernet transfer speed - it's limited to 6 mbps, because it seems to use the same bus for ethernet and USB. Wifi transfer is stuck at 2 mbps maximum.
As for rpi speed, there's only so much you can do about it... did everything that was mentioned here: https://extremeshok.com/1081/raspberry-pi-raspbian-tuning-optimising-optimizing-for-reduced-memory-usage/
But I didn't notice any noticeable speed difference... the whole thing runs smoothly with around 100mb of RAM to spare.

[Kulverstukas]

Bump. Result of the dust filter after a month: http://imgur.com/G15pxE1,rkvBdB8,CV1sq35#0
I think it works pretty good.

[ColonelPanic]

My buddy put Arch on a PogoPlug (http://www.amazon.com/Pogoplug-Series-4-Backup-Device/dp/B006I5MKZY) and uses it as a seedbox/home media server and seems happy with it. He did something like this, IIRC: http://blog.qnology.com/2013/03/tutorial-pogoplug-e02-with-arch-linux.html