Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Nagios, Gnome 3, Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop

[Richard Pieri]

On Apr 15, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> You would attach the drives via the 2 USB 2.0 ports?

That's the idea.

> If it had a few port-multiplier compatible eSATA ports that you could
> wire to an external drive cage, and GB Ethernet, then it would make for
> a decent NAS controller. Otherwise you'd probably be better off with a
> hackable WD Mybook or the like.

Too much work to make it suitable.  If I didn't already have the disks then sure, that would be a good option, but I do, and it would end up costing me more both in time and money to do that migration.

--Rich P.