[Freedombox-discuss] NAS or little-space-sheevaplug, the HD question

[rohit]

Hi Anthony, I'm going to play with Tahoe LAFS this weekend.  It has 
advantages to "cloud provided storage" in being secure, p2pclient 
based.  It seems like it might be the right solution, and is pretty 
debian friendly with an sshfs connector.

Rohit
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 08:27, Arthur Lutz <arthur.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I was wondering about something : how much disk space would *your*
>> FreedomBox have ?
>>     
>
> I'm wondering that right now actually -- my SheevaPlug arrived, and
> I'm not sure what to do about storage for it. Options are: a trivial
> amount on board (~512MB), an SD card (16GB maybe?), a USB memory stick
> (16GB also), an external USB disk (300-750GB), or local network access
> to my NAS box (TB+).
>
> For me, use cases are:
>
> Barely any space needed:
>
>   - routing, ipv6 support
>   - personal wiki
>   - wordpress
>
> Some GBs needed:
>
>   - irclogs (.5GB)
>   - email (~4GB? Gmail offers 7GB for comparison)
>   - photos/videos (~4GB? Picasa offers 1GB free, 20GB for $5 per year)
>   - gitweb/git repos (?)
>
> Lotsa GBs needed:
>
>   - backups
>   - DVD rips
>   - Debian mirror
>
>   
>> I feel that a sheevaplug is not really made to have a big hard drive
>> attached to it. Does anyone have an (good) experience with long term use of
>> a USB drive on that kind of setup ?
>>     
>
> My feeling for the sheevaplug is that it's "cheap" so you should
> expect it to break and need replacement anyway. Ideally, use case
> should be something like:
>
>    * buy sheevaplug and cheap storage
>    * configure, create identity, add content, setup "cloud" backups
>    * have it break :(
>    * buy new sheevaplug and cheap storage
>    * re-identify yourself
>    * have it grab backup from the "cloud", and start working again
>
> For the time being I think I'm going to just use a 2GB SD card for
> development, and a ~500GB? USB drive I've got handy, with the idea
> being to work out how much space I actually need and eventually just
> use an SD card and my ReadyNAS. Not sure what "cloud" backup might
> actually involve, though.
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
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