Re: modern cheap NAS fully supported by Debian?

["Spitz, Richard" <u7l11ey@mail.lrz-muenchen.de>]

Am 2012-08-03 20:44, schrieb Timo Jyrinki:
> 2012/7/20 Nicola Bernardini <nicb@sme-ccppd.org>:>
> > I gave up on my NSLU 2 which seems irremediably broken (my guess is 
> > that
> > the RAM is botched) and I would like to buy another NAS  in  that  
> > price
> > range or whereabouts. And of course, I would like to be able  to  
> > run  a
> > full Debian system on it. Debian  Squeeze  would  be  fine,  but  I  
> > can
> > install Woody if need be. What do you think is a good  buy?
>
> Being a happy owner of an (now) officially Debian supported NAS 
> device
> for many years, I wouldn't go for anything else if I'd be upgrading
> now: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/. In other words, I'd not
> stare at small megahertz differences etc., just getting the one that
> has support beginning from installer.
>
> I love my orion based QNAP TS-109, and currently would upgrade to 
> QNAP
> TS-119 if I would have the need, but QNAP isn't cheap. So maybe the
> Plug variants mentioned on the page instead.

I've been following this discussion with great interest, since I am in 
a similar
situation.

What is the real advantage of running Debian on a NAS? I'm presently 
using a
NSLU2 under Debian for collecting and graphing energy data in my home. 
Now I
need a NAS, whose primary purpose is central data storage and backup, 
while
using a minimal amount of energy. I am concerned that running Debian on 
the
NAS and make it take over the NSLU2's tasks might counteract the energy
saving features of the NAS, such as disk spindown.

Any ideas or experience on this?

Regards, Richard